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On-chain assets are up ~589% since the start of 2025 🎃

• Public equities: +422%
• Bonds and money market funds: +$6.5B / +83%
• Novel assets like reinsurance and GPU tokenization: +72%

Tokenization of real-world assets keeps picking up steam. Rumor has it even Wildberries decided to jump on the bandwagon.

The growth rate of tokenized assets right now is just as staggering as the trend of launching prediction markets or integrating Polymarket.

Gold < $4000 😐

This month I probably won't be recording the monthly digest. But I recorded a voice message about the VPN business for you, a bit of behind-the-scenes stuff.

💡 And I published a post for you about an interesting business model that resonates with me. Steve Jobs interpreted it as The Beatles business model.

Except I'd add a little to it, based on my personal observation. If a person is over 25 and isn't married, has no kids, or at least no steady partner, it's better not to hire such people for key positions or take them on as partners. Especially if you're planning to grow beyond a small business/startup.

To pay for our VPN service, as well as pay for any subscriptions to foreign services, including such finicky ones as Claude, ChatGPT, and iCloud, I recommend using these bank cards 😈

Stable, reliable, convenient, they support Apple Pay and have no restrictions whatsoever for Russian citizens. Plus there's cashback. As we say in Italy: La mia raccomandazione 😒

📣 A new, but already regular section on the channel: #digest

June podcast

Talking about the VPN business ✨

✨ You know, we live in amazing times. The main cash-flow project I've invested in, the one that brought in the most revenue this year. A business that sponsors startups and covers 20% of charity expenses.

A product that I personally don't even use in Europe… Maybe once a month I fire it up via TestFlight on the iPhone Air and on my work Android for testing. Those who've been following me for a while know what I'm talking about: of course it's our ⚡️VPN service.

And I'm not sharing this info with you for no reason. From my own experience, I want to highlight one detail: any crisis, whether personal or financial-economic, is first and foremost a time of opportunity to change something in your life. And if you realize this and sit down for an evening or two to really turn this thought over in your head, in silence, instead of just skimming past it as something obvious, maybe your life will change for the better too.

The Beatles' business model🫡

They were four very talented people. Four people who kept each other's negative traits in check. They balanced each other out. And the result was greater than the simple sum of their individual parts. That's exactly how I see business.

Great things in business are never built by one person. They're built by a team of people. I love The Beatles. When The Beatles were together, they created truly brilliant, innovative work. And when the band broke up, they went on doing good work. But it wasn't the same anymore.

And I see business exactly the same way: at its core, there's always a team.