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Abilities 🇺🇲🇺🇸 – at Tadigadapa, India
I just wrote to @realDonaldTrump with some very important thoughts.
I hope it works. 🤞
Some days I think the only legacy worth leaving is that the next person has it a little easier than I did. Fixing a system that hurt you is slow and mostly invisible work. I want to spend my life doing more of it.
Tanisha Katara retweeted
if any tradfi firms (funds, family offices, etc.) are hyperliquid curious after Druckenmiller's post and want to learn more, please DM or email me: [email protected]
Onboard to @ShieldTXxyz and trade privately on Hyperliquid.
if any tradfi firms (funds, family offices, etc.) are hyperliquid curious after Druckenmiller's post and want to learn more, please DM or email me: [email protected]
When you generally have dispropotionate bad luck, you have got to have dispropotionate excellence.
Bad luck is just things we don't want happening to us. Excellence won't counter it but makes you capable enough to depend less on externalities.
I have tried so hard my entire life justifying or fighting bad luck because I don't like the idea of not being in control of what happens to me.
My perspective has shifted now. When bad things happen, I cry it out. Fight a little with Zeus (into Greek mythology these days) in my head. Then khallas! One day of crying later, we pick ourselves up and pursue excellence.
Today, I cry. Please DND.
Tomorrow, I'll try and be unstoppable again. Also please DND.
The news is being picked up 🥹🥹
Read the article. The numbers will surprise you as they did when I first found them. Apparently, 29% of the top 150 Hyperliquid wallets use sub accounts and try to rotate funds to avoid copy trading.
But guess what? It doesn't work. All sub accounts can be mapped to the original funding account super easily onchain.
I will talk more about these numbers in a seperate thread soon.
EXCLUSIVE: Avail launches ShieldTX privacy tool targeting copy-trading bots on Hyperliquid theblock.co/news/defi/2026-1…
Tanisha Katara retweeted
lots of blood, sweat and tokens went into building this
i personally learnt a lot
no better platform than this if you want privacy
AVAIL enters the Hyperliquid ecosystem with @ShieldTXxyz
Why Hyperliquid, and why now?
Hyperliquid is where a lack of privacy costs large traders on every trade, and public exposure is holding back desks and funds who want to trade there.
After screening 332,317 wallets over 30 days, ShieldTX studied the impact of copy-trading on seven top perp traders and found a median execution loss of 63 bps per trade.
Hyperliquid can't capture the flow that needs privacy while every position remains public. ShieldTX routes that flow to @HyperliquidX, with the enterprise-grade privacy large traders need.
We've spent months speaking with whales, trading desks, market makers and digital asset funds who want to use the platform without the public exposure. They want privacy from competitors and copy-bots, without giving up compliance.
The current solutions aren't enough:
• Hyperliquid sub-accounts link to the main account onchain
• Multi-wallet rotation gets exposed by Arkham and other analytics platforms
• Third-party privacy solutions still expose a trader's PnL onchain
ShieldTX is built to close this gap.
Every trade is placed on Hyperliquid from a brand-new Hyperliquid wallet. Nothing links the trade onchain to the trader, and nothing links the trades together. A full trading history is available to users for audits and compliance.
ShieldTX is the on-ramp for crypto-native desks today, and the institutions who come next.
Tanisha Katara retweeted
When most people hear AVAIL they think DA. The truth is we haven't stopped building core blockchain infrastructure since.
Today we're announcing ShieldTX (@ShieldTXxyz) on Hyperliquid, our enterprise offering for whales, trading desks and funds.
It's built on AVAIL's ZK privacy layer and protects the strategies, positions and PnL of high-volume perp traders.
We've spent months speaking with whales, trading desks, market makers and digital asset funds who want to use Hyperliquid without the public exposure. They want privacy from competitors and copy-bots, without giving up their compliance obligations.
The cost is measurable. Our wallet study found copy-trading activity costs top traders a median 63 bps per trade. ShieldTX gives these traders the privacy they need, and brings more volume to Hyperliquid.
Want a demo? My DMs are open.
AVAIL enters the Hyperliquid ecosystem with @ShieldTXxyz
Why Hyperliquid, and why now?
Hyperliquid is where a lack of privacy costs large traders on every trade, and public exposure is holding back desks and funds who want to trade there.
After screening 332,317 wallets over 30 days, ShieldTX studied the impact of copy-trading on seven top perp traders and found a median execution loss of 63 bps per trade.
Hyperliquid can't capture the flow that needs privacy while every position remains public. ShieldTX routes that flow to @HyperliquidX, with the enterprise-grade privacy large traders need.
We've spent months speaking with whales, trading desks, market makers and digital asset funds who want to use the platform without the public exposure. They want privacy from competitors and copy-bots, without giving up compliance.
The current solutions aren't enough:
• Hyperliquid sub-accounts link to the main account onchain
• Multi-wallet rotation gets exposed by Arkham and other analytics platforms
• Third-party privacy solutions still expose a trader's PnL onchain
ShieldTX is built to close this gap.
Every trade is placed on Hyperliquid from a brand-new Hyperliquid wallet. Nothing links the trade onchain to the trader, and nothing links the trades together. A full trading history is available to users for audits and compliance.
ShieldTX is the on-ramp for crypto-native desks today, and the institutions who come next.
The work is finally public.
What a journey this has been! So much heart, hardwork, user research, trader jams, redesigns, key hires, hyperliquid dinners and everything institutional discipline and dexterity has gone into this.
And can you believe that it's still only a few millions in private beta?
We promise the institutional grade trading experience that this industry deserves.
AVAIL enters the Hyperliquid ecosystem with @ShieldTXxyz
Why Hyperliquid, and why now?
Hyperliquid is where a lack of privacy costs large traders on every trade, and public exposure is holding back desks and funds who want to trade there.
After screening 332,317 wallets over 30 days, ShieldTX studied the impact of copy-trading on seven top perp traders and found a median execution loss of 63 bps per trade.
Hyperliquid can't capture the flow that needs privacy while every position remains public. ShieldTX routes that flow to @HyperliquidX, with the enterprise-grade privacy large traders need.
We've spent months speaking with whales, trading desks, market makers and digital asset funds who want to use the platform without the public exposure. They want privacy from competitors and copy-bots, without giving up compliance.
The current solutions aren't enough:
• Hyperliquid sub-accounts link to the main account onchain
• Multi-wallet rotation gets exposed by Arkham and other analytics platforms
• Third-party privacy solutions still expose a trader's PnL onchain
ShieldTX is built to close this gap.
Every trade is placed on Hyperliquid from a brand-new Hyperliquid wallet. Nothing links the trade onchain to the trader, and nothing links the trades together. A full trading history is available to users for audits and compliance.
ShieldTX is the on-ramp for crypto-native desks today, and the institutions who come next.
I've been working with institutions and Hyperliquid whales in private beta.
In every meeting, I pull up their address and show them who is copy trading them, how fast copybots follow their fills and what it's costing them.
The whole room goes "woaaahhh."
So now it's public. 🥳 scanner.shieldtx.xyz
Run your Hyperliquid address for free and see who's copying you and by how much. It's crazy.
Watch the video to see how it works.
I just love the vibes of this website btw. 🤌
if you’re in crypto and not trading <via shieldtx.xyz on> prediction markets on HIP-4, Hyperliquid’s newest markets with barely any volume or activity, after they mentioned airdrops 7 times to the SEC this week, you are financially irresponsible
Tanisha Katara retweeted
We get asked a lot. How hard is ShieldTX to use?
It's as simple as using Hyperliquid, because all the hard work happens in the background. You simply deposit, open, close.
Every trade goes through a brand-new wallet, with nothing linking you or your trading history onchain.
Hacks don't scare me anymore.
Layoffs don't scare me anymore.
AI takeover doesn't scare me anymore.
"Unshielded" transactions do.
Lack of institutional adoption does.
Et tu? Meet ShieldTX.
Machi (@machibigbrother) got liquidated 5 times in just 1 hour!
He now has only ~$5K left in his account.
hypurrscan.io/address/0x020c…
I think it's time for a re-introduction since I see a bunch of new followers.
Welcome to my X profile. I am here because the industry I work in won't consider me 'legit' if I am not here.
Not to sound very Linkedin-like, I have worked for 8 years but the coolest part is that I have worked with like... 20 companies in these 8 years. Across the breadth of blockchain and AI companies - Payments, L2s, L1s, DAOs, Privacy, DA, Messaging, Storage, Sequencer Auctions and now a lot of RAG. I get to work with them all upclose! In the cockpit with the founders. Long enough to see these companies either scale or die.
Yes, I am a consultant. Went from being a freelancer to owning a consulting firm now. I love solving, discussing, brainstorming and absolutely being wrong about business, GTM and Monetization. In fact, I have made many terrible mistakes like arguing with ct on "Governance will win" when in reality, it is entirely dead.
But I am the kind that will continue to make more of such arguments. My brain will generate ideas, fail at building them, try again but never... never will I leave the hands of the founders and companies I work with.
Thank you for following along. I hope my chaos is valuable to you. :)
Tanisha Katara retweeted
Trillions are pouring into the race to build the first general superintelligence, but leveraging your own specialized know-it-all is now possible as of today.
I built the knowledge systems at @stripe and @uber. Then I helped Anthropic, Metronome, and Graphite build a killer developer experience. Everyone wants Stripe-level quality, but that bar is too low.
Falconer gives you and your customers complete, specialized intelligence: an internal knowledge base and external documentation in one beautiful package. Falconer is the ultimate trust engine to manage your context: self-driving, observable, and agent-friendly.
I co-founded @falconer_ai with @mbenedetto212 and assembled a team of know-it-all builders. We're backed by fellow know-it-alls @thegp, @BoxGroup, @svangel, @karimatiyeh, @benln, @zachlloydtweets, @CeciStalls, @MerrillLutsky, @scottmac, @malthe, and @adamjstevenson, with angels from Anthropic, Stripe, Meta, Cursor, Replit, and more.
Frontier intelligence companies like @FireworksAI_HQ and @⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛; fintech companies like @payabli and @vori; and healthtech companies like @thatch_ai use @falconer_ai because they all share the same vision as us: the knowledge you earn should belong to you.
Now you can know everything, so you can build anything.
Adding to this - I know a lot of beautiful, honest local businesses in Mumbai.
While I am not going to be there, I can connect anyone looking for indian swags, food, tea spots or guides in Mumbai.
Don't forget to grab some hot vadapavs every now and then! 🤤
im very sad that I won't be able to travel to devcon this year. i was looking forward to go to india and show my crypto friends around.
but, if you are considering going to devcon but are hesitant to go because it's in India, i ask you to have a little bit of open mind.
it's an overstimulating country for first 2 days, and you would think everyone is there to get you or steal from you. but that's not true at all. there are bad parts in every country -- remember Bogota? or Brussels?
if you have some local crypto friends, they will be a great guide. i will personally help you in anything needed.
but the point is that devcon needs more ethereum people aligned. EF needs more ethereum people aligned. this hasn't been the best year for EF, but im still an eth community member. i love devcon and india. i think it's going to be great.
some tips:
- food is great. if your white/euro genes cant take the spice, go to nicer restaurants
- use Uber Black everywhere
- Mumbai is LA of India. women do walk alone during night, but if you're concerned, then always have +1 in ubers.
- a lot of people can understand english and speak broken english so you should be fine.
- you do need cash or any of travel card with 0% transaction fee. amex platinum works great or similar visa/master cards.
- you need cash because you won't get UPI as non-indian and it's not worth the hassle.
- dont get scammed into paying 3x more at streets for anything. always have an indian bro lmeow
- on similar note, mostly tuk-tuk people will charge you 3x or souvenir places on the street
- try indian sweets and desserts. you will love them.
- try street food for the love of god
- if you're a founder or working at bigger orgs, you will be surrounded by a lot of folks for job opportunities or funding, try to be patient with them or ask for space. they are still learning.
overall, india has some of the best talents in crypto: from building products to marketing, some of them are exceptional and those 1% people are the ones you wanna connect to.
I often get asked - How do you have clients in such times as a consultant?
Yes, blockchain applications are struggling to find PMF. Especially some categories.
Yes, I know. I started in Governance and Decentralization and those areas are more dead than they've ever been.
Yes, there is a huge stigma around blockchain. I get really mad when I'm targeted as a scammer just because I work in blockchain.
I have clients because I refuse to believe that this technology is like segway bikes.
You will use blockchain for your payments, privacy, financial markets and predictions and you will not even realize it.
You won't sign transactions and be on a scanner waiting for your bridge to complete.
You won't care about governance unless it is aligned to your incentives which smart protocols will focus on.
There is so much work to do. So much to improve and launch in this space. With AI, things have gotten more exciting for me.
I may be without clients someday but I don't think I will ever run out of work.
The Golden temple in Amritsar is such a good vibes place. It's a whole other world!
Highly recommend.
Tanisha Katara retweeted
There's a lot of trading desks, funds and crypto whales that aren't using Hyperliquid... but they desperately want to.
The problem?
Their reputation, strategies & alpha will be publicly available and seen by everyone, including competitors, media and copy-traders.
Imagine building your strategy for weeks, testing, iterating and executing, only to be followed by 50,000 copy bots in under 30 seconds.
Or having your positions exposed by crypto media, hunted down by whale hunters, and watching a $100m account get wiped in weeks.
This isn't made up, it's happening now and every data point is publicly available.
Now imagine having built the same strategy. You still have access to every single Hyperliquid perp market, 24/7, but it's completely anonymous...
You trade what you want, whenever you want. Your orders are executed on Hyperliquid, but they don't link to you.
No one can link the trade directly to you.
Not your competitors, not crypto media and not the +50k copy-bots watching your every move.
Access by invitation only.
Request yours at shieldtx.xyz/request-access
SELECT "Happiness" FROM "Tanisha's Life Learnings"
...> WHERE 'learning SQL' IS NOT NULL;
Yes, I am learning SQL and it's fun! 🤓
Don't tell me it's not worth learning SQL in the AI age. As a non-tech who wants to deploy high ROI workflows, it has become more important than ever to understand databases.