Kri

1. Never believe anyone's price predictions.
2. Don't "diversify" into other cryptos; none of them are actually decentralized, everything except bitcoin is a shitcoin (yes, really), and it's all gambling. The point of bitcoin is not gambling, but to end modern day slavery (fiat currency).
3. When everyone you know is talking about bitcoin, you're at the top of a bull market. You'll likely be too exuberant to realize it though. It will be obvious in hindsight.
4. Don't "trade some altcoins on the side to get more bitcoin". You are not that smart, and the overwhelming probability is that you will get wrecked.
5. DCA into bitcoin. Ignore your emotions. Don't try to time the market. Just stack what you can every paycheck.
6. Don't be too excited about bitcoin; people will feel like you're scamming them even though you're just trying help.
7. Go to meetups & conferences. Don't be isolated. Bitcoiners are generally very awesome people.
8. When people ask you about how to buy bitcoin, send them to a BITCOIN-ONLY company. Example for why: My cousin bought bitcoin (on Coinbase) during the bull market, then sold it for shiba on the same platform and now she pretty much lost everything. Bitcoin-only companies are the safest option to keep newbies from doing newbie things.
9. Be on #bitcoin    twitter and nostr. Obviously if you're reading this, you're already here...but I didn't get on twitter until 2020 and can tell you that it's a lot less lonely hodling bitcoin when you see a bunch of other people on this platform experiencing the same things you are.
10. Be skeptical of influencers. Even me (I'm not a huge account, but still). Some are good, some are bad. Even if they have good intentions, their judgement can be clouded by bad incentives.
11. Stop trying to convince everyone you know that bitcoin will make everything better (even though it will). Instead, be a good resource for the people who eventually reach out to you about it. Be known as "the bitcoin guy" and let people come to you when they're ready. Have good content prepared for them to read/watch when they do.
That is all. It's been a great ride so far and I'm happy to know you guys.
#bitcoin #dyor #crypto2023

Vanar Web3 Fellowship Showcases AI-Powered Wins in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, 30 July 2025 — Vanar, the intelligent Layer-1 blockchain engineered for real-world finance, graduated the inaugural cohort of top web3 startups from its Web3 Leaders Fellowship, delivered with support from Google Cloud. The four-month program distilled Pakistan’s entrepreneurial energy into eight products that fuse blockchain, artificial intelligence, and user-centered design, giving frontier builders access to coaching from Vanar and scalable, secure infrastructure and Web3 solutions from Google Cloud.
The eight web3 startups span a diverse set of sub-verticals, including carbon credits trading, DeFi, and play-to-earn gaming. They benefited from code reviews and product clinics from Vanar and Google Cloud, and unveiled their demos to investors and builders in Lahore on 9 July.
Founders received up to US$25,000 in Google Cloud credits under the Google for Startups Web3 Program and a parallel US$25,000 milestone-based grant from Vanar. This was further matched by access to deep technical expertise and support from Vanar, including hands-on tutorials in scalable Solidity patterns, token-economics sandboxes, advanced prompt-engineering for on-chain AI agents, and one-on-one sessions with product-market-fit specialists.
“The Fellowship converted months of guesswork into weeks of momentum,” said Anjum Shahzad, CEO of identity-management start-up Flare ID. Talha bin Afzal of play-to-earn game ExoFarm noted that the concentrated format “connected us with decision-makers who would normally take a year of networking to reach,” Saad Siddiqui of edtech platform Edversity highlighted the psychological dividend: “Building alongside two global leaders forces you to raise your own bar.”
Pakistan’s digital economy is currently at an inflection point. Chainalysis ranks the country ninth worldwide for peer-to-peer crypto adoption. In May, the finance ministry earmarked two gigawatts of surplus electricity for Bitcoin mining and AI data centers, turning idle generation capacity into a catalyst for high-tech employment and foreign direct investment. Grass-roots ecosystems are equally vibrant: Web3 Pak, the nation’s largest decentralized tech community, now counts more than 7,000 members across 40 universities, giving Vanar a ready talent funnel for future fellowships.
Jawad Ashraf, Vanar’s co-founder and CEO, views the graduation as proof that emerging-market founders can leapfrog incremental development cycles. “By giving Web3 startups access to the combination of an intelligent and high-speed Vanar Chain and powerful Google Cloud’s infrastructure and Web3 solution portfolio, we can help them reduce the historical trade-off between speed, cost, and security,” he said, adding that applications for the 2026 Fellowship will open later this year and will, for the first time, welcome founders from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa while retaining a significant seat allocation for Pakistan.
About Vanar
Vanar is an AI-native Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for real-world finance, PayFi rails, and tokenized assets. The core Vanar Stack combines a high-throughput, low-fee execution layer with Kayon, an on-chain reasoning engine, and Neutron, a semantic compression layer that stores provable data directly on-chain, enabling smart contracts and AI agents to query and act on live information without off-chain oracles. The network is EVM-compatible, energy-efficient, and trusted by global partners such as Worldpay, Binance, and Stakefish.
Headquartered in Singapore with engineering hubs in London and Lahore, Vanar supports builders through grants, hackathons, and fellowships that bridge frontier talent with institutional-grade infrastructure.
#vanar $VANRY @Vanarchain

Introducing Dual Flow Batch Auctions (DFBA) as the execution mechanism for Ambient on Fogo. DFBA blends the precision of a central limit order book (CLOB) with the fairness of automated market makers (AMMs). Instead of continuous matching, trades are batched and cleared at block end using oracle prices. This design reduces MEV, shifts competition from speed to price, and creates opportunities for price improvement. With Fogo's Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) architecture, we can run DFBA natively in smart contracts with low compute costs, no consensus-layer changes required.
The team at Jump Crypto recently published their thesis on DFBA, something we've been building at since inception.
Why DFBA?
On-chain trading today mostly relies on AMMs or continuous CLOBs. Each has tradeoffs:
AMMs are simple and accessible but often inefficient for precise quoting.CLOBs enable tight spreads and deep liquidity but are vulnerable to latency arbitrage and MEV.
DFBA takes the best of both. By clearing trades in batches tied to an oracle, it removes speed advantages, makes trading fairer, and deepens liquidity. Instead of racing to be first, participants compete on price.
How It Works in Ambient
Here's the flow for DFBA on Ambient:
Order Submission
Traders submit orders with a defined slippage tolerance (in basis points relative to the auction price). That tolerance sets the limit for acceptable execution.Batch Accumulation
Orders collect during the block. We separate them into "maker" (liquidity-providing) and "taker" (liquidity-consuming) flows. Unlike continuous matching, nothing clears until the block ends.Auction Execution
At block close, we run a batch auction using an oracle price (e.g. Pyth). One clearing price is set for each side (buy/sell). Since all orders clear at the same time, competition focuses on price, not speed.Fill and Settlement
Trades execute at the clearing price, with the possibility of price improvement. For example: if you placed a buy order and the market dropped during the block, competitive participants adjust quotes atomically, so you get a better price, without needing to race.
All of this is written as standard Solana programs on Fogo. The SVM's high throughput and cheap compute units let us run auctions every block without breaking efficiency.
Advantages
DFBA is designed to address long-standing pain points in on-chain trading:
MEV Reduction
Since the final auction price is tied to an unpredictable oracle and happens after a "quiet period," front-running is extremely difficult.Price Improvement and Fairness
Clearing at a single price means market movements benefit traders, not low-latency snipers. Limit orders can actually fill at better prices when conditions shift during the batch.Oracle Risk Management
If the oracle lags, we can extend the auction delay. If it fails outright, oracle-pegged liquidity deactivates, and makers fall back to quoting fixed prices. Markets stay live, just with less depth.Protection from Latency Arbitrage
Continuous models still leave room for reordering attacks. DFBA's dual-flow design blocks this, ensuring tighter spreads without speed-based exploitation.
The result is a structure that's stronger than pure AMMs and more fair than continuous CLOBs.
Practical Considerations
A few common questions we've seen from the community:
What if slippage is set too tight?
Your order won't execute. That's by design---it protects you. The trade-off is balancing protection with fill probability.Who competes in the auction?
External solvers and market makers can submit competitive bids, similar to CoW Swap's solver model, but integrated directly into the batch process.Who pays for price improvement?
Improvements come from competitive quoting, not extraction. Makers/takers absorb the cost through tighter pricing, rather than value being siphoned off by MEV bots.What happens in volatile markets?
The system prioritizes continuity. Even if oracles are stressed, we degrade gracefully, markets don't freeze, though liquidity may thin.
Conclusion
DFBA on Fogo is a new market structure for Ambient: batching orders, anchoring them to oracle prices, and forcing competition on price instead of speed. This design cuts down on MEV, creates fairer fills, and keeps trading resilient even under stress.
By building directly on Fogo's SVM, Fogo can implement this entirely in smart contracts, something that wouldn't be practical on less performant chains.
Fogo see DFBA as a foundation for a fairer on-chain trading environment, with plenty of room to refine oracle integrations, slippage dynamics, and solver participation over time.
@Fogo Official #Fogo $FOGO