Packy McCormick

Dan gets married.
Happy birthday, Dad!
FDA approves 2x-yearly HIV treatment.
Lilly to acquire Verve Therapeutics to fix hearts.
Waymo sets its robotaxi sights on New York City.
US Senate passes GENIUS Act stablecoin bill. 🇺🇸
Physics algorithms build remarkable new enzymes.

+ Sari Azout on how to be human on Hyperlegible
++ New @jasonjoyride x @abundanceinst collab.

What a week for the optimists.

You all cringed, but Coinbase is up 8.39% since sponsoring Donald Trump's birthday party.

It’s awesome to see @stripe going so hard at crypto. Bridge and Privy are great acquisitions.

Es gibt viele großartige LPs, aber die Idee, niedrigere Gebühren zu nehmen und Jason und Chamath in Ihrem LPAC zu haben, ist ziemlich ansprechend.

Bitcoin $110k

Alles ist Technologie.

2025 Risikokapitalfinanzierte Exits über 1 Milliarde $

I'm old enough to remember when they'd sell you a share of Coinbase for $33. Now it's joining the S&P 500. What a time to be alive.

PAPA AMERICANA
Techo-Industrial Playbook
Stripe Ramps stablecoin efforts
Amazon Vulcan robot has touch
Researchers discover short sleep gene
New Oxford vaccine to fight meningitis

+ Function acquires Ezra; $500 cancer scan

What a week for the optimists.

So much bullish news for stablecoins and USDC is basically flat. It was all priced in I guess.

Instead of selling those 38 Bitcoin in 2013, I should have bought 38 more Bitcoin.

World x Visa
Stripe x Ramp
Coinbase x402

What a week to be a digital dollar!