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Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
BREAKING: For the first time in American history, the Department of Energy has approved a commercial nuclear microreactor's safety analysis for full-power operations.
LA-based Radiant secured the approval, with testing planned at Idaho National Laboratory.
ALT Source: Radiant Rendering
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
DoubleZero Edge for Builders is now on testnet.
Edge for Builders is a permissionless way for third parties to publish their own real-time data feeds on DoubleZero Edge, reach their subscribers, and charge their own customers. It gives them the send-once delivery model traditional exchanges use for market data, on the DoubleZero network, without operating distribution infrastructure of their own.
How it works:
The publisher sends each update once, and DoubleZero's dedicated network links deliver it to every subscriber. Served over WebSockets and cloud APIs, every new subscriber is another copy for the publisher to send. Builders create their own feeds and publishers through the builder API, and sign every action with their own key.
Existing Edge subscribers can add builder feeds on the connection they already have.
Edge for Builders was announced at TOKEN2049. This is the earliest access, open now to ambitious teams distributing real-time data to many subscribers: exchanges and venues, data aggregators, pricing providers, and any project serving real-time data over WebSockets or cloud APIs.
Docs: docs.doublezero.xyz/builders…
About DoubleZero Edge: doublezero.xyz/edge
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
Memecoins might be closer to concert tickets than investments.
DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa says it's a mistake to treat crypto entertainment like an asset class
"Oftentimes, we look at things that are entertainment products as financial products in crypto. NFTs were not really a financial product. I'm not sure memecoins are ever really a financial product."
"No one's particularly mad that people are spending $600 to go see a band and then they're spending $48 on a beer, because it's entertainment. We don't consider it an investment class."
"The problem was when people started conflating memecoins, which were effectively people having fun onchain and getting some dopamine from numbers moving around on the screen, with an actual financial asset class."
"Obviously, you really should not invest in memecoins. But if you think this is fun and you want to play around with it, great. I have no problem with that."
Bitcoin's Bear Market Ended Months Ago nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DxLdZBWk…
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
With AI agents, the trading app you use will not matter anymore.
DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa says agents will route trades to the best price, making "everything app" exchanges less relevant
"The UI's not going to matter in 6 months. The same way that none of us really interface with, like, Anthropic's UI. We go in through a terminal or a little web app on the computer."
"What we're really dealing with is the death of the UI, because the agents are going to be able to navigate these systems. Do I really care if I'm trading on Interactive Brokers or Robinhood? I just care about getting the best price I can and the best execution I can."
"That's the threat that Amazon faces right now. The everything store is not particularly useful if your agent is your interface to the everything store. And so the everything house of finance, it's an existential problem for anyone like that."
Bitcoin's Bear Market Ended Months Ago nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DxLdZBWk…
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
tl;dr your 200 IQ trading strategy means nothing if your competition gets market data first.
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
AI won't make you Jane Street overnight. But it's closing the gap fast.
DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa on how AI-built programs, faster data and affordable servers are lowering the barriers for retail traders
"AI inference is still too slow to really trade on. But you can have AI build you a trading program. Then you can hook that up to DoubleZero data."
"You're not Jane Street overnight, but you are closing the gap tremendously between click trading on a UI and what a market making firm is doing."
"Go back 5 years ago, and if you had an alpha trade and you didn't work at a big firm, good luck actually executing that trade. The execution and the data access was such a barrier. That's coming down very quickly."
"AI can build the program for you. DoubleZero can get you the data. Through projects like the Hub, you can get a bare metal server located in NY4 at a pretty reasonable price."
"It's not exactly the same as being co-located with Nasdaq, but it's much better than having your agent trade through Robinhood. So the access barrier is getting very low very quickly."
Bitcoin's Bear Market Ended Months Ago nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DxLdZBWk…
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
Elysium is bringing its infrastructure to Tokyo, and builders in its ecosystem can now deploy alongside it.
At TheHUB, we're offering preferred terms for @Enter_Elysium builders who want to deploy alongside the project.
No hardware purchase is required; teams can bring their own servers or use bare metal and on-prem cloud providers already operating inside TheHUB.
If you’re building on Elysium, join us on this odyssey.
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa @Austin_Federa says public internet latency gives traders with better infrastructure an edge in DeFi.
DoubleZero’s dedicated fiber network aims to reduce latency and make transaction speeds more predictable.
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
update on the alps thing
after silent approval from @Austin_Federa and @eden_ I’ve done it.
top of europe, nothing above and @doublezero on top. -12 up there but I’m still wearing shorts.
bullish from the top of the world
IBRL
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
You guys have heard me say that I believed @Lighter_xyz had the lead when it came to optimizations of the matching engine for perps. Lots of that has to do with their offchain matching engine, being an L2, HFT experience, smart decisions, etc.
However, with the recent @doublezero and @TheHUB optimizations – Hyperliquid now has a chance to level the playing field in this area – even as an L1 with consensus.
Anybody who cares about HL staying on top should consider these partners. And great to see the whole space better optimized to compete with CEX’s and TradFi.
Great to see @Enter_Elysium deploying a @HyperliquidX node at @TheHUB.
Infrastructure is an important part of what they're building for the HL ecosystem, and we're glad to be able to support it. Anyone else running a Hyperliquid node and exploring infrastructure options, feel free to reach out.
Inside TheHUB, you can bring your own servers, rent bare metal or even run an on prem VM for less latency sensitive applications.
Shout out to the @Enter_Elysium and @Kinetiq_xyz teams.
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
all 99 slots have been reserved.
thank you.
It is time your assets find a better home.
Opening first 99 spots to reserve your shift card.
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Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
TODAY: @Anza implements Alpenglow upgrade on @Solana, cutting finality to ~150ms, from ~12.8 seconds.
Tom Warner (@redbeard), Head of BD at @DoubleZero, on @_TalkingTokens about why speed and predictability matter for institutions trading on Solana:
"Traditional finance systems are incredibly faster than crypto systems.
Every trading firm builds their model around how long does it take to execute, so you have predictability on, if I want to buy the stock, I know it’s going to take me 20 milliseconds, and then you can calculate based on how long your perceived price alpha exists."
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
Seoul wanted to know why onchain finance is still slow.
Well, it runs on the public internet.
The solution is the same as Wall Street: dedicated fiber.
@Austin_Federa, Co-Founder of DoubleZero at @kbwofficial 2026.
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
Edge for Builders. 🧱
Permissionless deployment of data feeds, powered by low-latency multicast, and 170x cheaper than WebSockets in the cloud.
Debuted at @token2049, coming soon to DoubleZero Edge.
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 retweeted
When markets close for holidays, disasters, or war, TradFi has an off button. New Finance doesn’t.
Yet, crypto still loses to Wall Street on speed.
Here's @Austin_Federa on "New Finance", why the “financial super app” is a trap, and how @doublezero is fixing the rails 👇