U.S. cities are facing huge liabilities that remain invisible on their books: dilapidated roads, bridges and buildings. 🔗 https://t.co/zePhlH9UbT https://t.co/c4R15NX3CV ...

Amtrak. To be or not to be, that is the question. Amtrak is that semi-public corporation the Congress set up a couple of years ago to see if it couldn't save the long-distance passenger train from a dismal death. But Amtrak really doesn't operate the trains the railroads that have been clamoring all these years to get out of the passenger business still do. All Amtrak does is funnel money to the 13 railroads in the Amtrak system. Since going into operation, Congress has given Amtrak over $200 million. And s ...

PYUSD went from $340m to $3.4b supply in a year and AWS just launched wallet services for AI agents using it as default settlement. $301m burned on ethereum in april alone. that's not idle supply, that's real settlement cycling through. 80% held by a single entity. paypal created a dedicated crypto payments division last month consolidating braintree and PYUSD for cross-border B2B. state street is using it for their onchain SWEEP fund on solana. pendle is offering 9.29% fixed yield on PYUSD-backed vaults. t ...

It's infrastructure. It's labor. It's it's look simple things like young men and women who can weld, who can do precision welding in the force, electricians, pipe fitters, things like that.The trades which are becoming so much more important and rightfully so. But then you have overregulation, outdated regulation by the Navy. You have shipyards that uh don't have the capacity to do it. You have long lead items that stretch back into the supply chain which may take years to procure.There may only be one supp ...

RT arielle 🔺 (@__arielle__)Long but worthwhile read. One thing crypto still underestimates is how much infrastructure matters.The next phase of blockchain adoption will not be won by the loudest ecosystem or the fastest meme cycle. It will be won by the platforms that businesses can actually build on top of for the next decade.Because when a bank, payment company, government, fintech, or global brand adopts blockchain infrastructure, they are not asking:“what’s trending this week?”They’re asking:Can this sc ...

Congrats to frens at KalqiX on mainnet 🥂Excited to see more builders pushing DeFi infra forwardKalqiX (@kalqix):KalqiX Mainnet is now LIVE.This isn’t just a new DEX.It’s infrastructure for the next generation of DeFi.Launch your own CLOB DEX.Plug into shared liquidity.Scale seamlessly.⚡ Sub-10 microsecond execution🔐 ZK-powered verification📊 On-chain orderbooks🛡️ MEV https://t.co/yIeTeti7aa ...

https://t.co/DhNAiPCPlFNAVI Protocol (@navi_protocol):3 happy years of Sui, the infrastructure is starting to matter more than just the narrative.NAVI is building where capital actually moves. Onchain, efficient, and ready for what comes next. https://t.co/k3OkDoUy0q ...

The four areas that I think will continue to accrue value:1. Bitcoin2. Stablecoins3. Infrastructure4. Tokenization ...

Uh, Bitcoin miners don't need 99.99% uptime of electricity, AI does. Uh, another one, high-speed internet. Bitcoin mining does not require high-speed internet.Oftentimes Bitcoin mines can operate just on satellite Starlink internet. Uh, AI obviously requires high-speed fiber. Uh, and so there's another difference in terms of the infrastructure.Uh, Bitcoin miners can sometimes just use shipping containers to hold their Bitcoin miners. And you're roughly talking $500,000 per megawatt of infrastructure, like t ...