# Best of x.com/balajis on Kiwi News

Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/source/x.com/balajis

14 stories by @balajis on X have been shared on Kiwi News since 6 June 2023, with 30 upvotes and 7 comments in total. The latest was shared on 30 January 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. @balajis: Free speech is open borders for ideology

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/balajis-Free-speech-is-open-borders-for-ideology?index=0x696f76e2008dfe2ef0addb85a59ea69f3563c7e133dbb94ccc4ece12b6a776e901788a53
- Source: https://x.com/balajis/status/2013013681248817246?s=12
- Shared 20 January 2026, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

## 2. @balajis: How USDC grew from $25M to $56B in seven years

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/balajis-How-USDC-grew-from-dollar25M-to-dollar56B-in-seven-years?index=0x682c516f3c39216f8ac910ca5e9d40dba51d72fb4bedd33dc67cc1cc9b6080cb12e4ef43
- Source: https://x.com/balajis/status/1895057597218332836
- Shared 20 May 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 3. Cryptoequity emerges: tokens as a new frontier for startup funding

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Cryptoequity-emerges-tokens-as-a-new-frontier-for-startup-funding?index=0x678e0921822e1e09c250ed21e4a4288337a906116620a911eaa48b6a7025b675e52b3dbe
- Source: https://x.com/balajis/status/1881239201657876895
- Shared 20 January 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The author argues that startups will likely begin raising funds by issuing tokens as explicit cryptoequity now that the regulatory environment has shifted. The text contends that the SEC had distorted the market for the past decade by pushing founders to obscure the analogy between tokens and equity, and that representing equity onchain is technically superior, allowing holding in wallets, pricing via API, and easy issuance of dividends, buybacks, and vesting schedules. It also recommends that founders use lockups, drag-along and cosale rights to align long-term interests, and that exchanges identify assets with long-term, value-aligning lockups.

## 4. The Network School

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Network-School?index=0x66c1349875c3f37f0b727cda12ba898dc619a72973486a3e049cd01039a83be4401b991a
- Source: https://x.com/balajis/status/1824533037780201580
- Shared 17 August 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The Network School is a new Internet-first institution that its founder announces is being built on an island near Singapore, starting with a 90-day popup running from Sep 23 to Dec 23. The school is organized around four parts: learn, burn, earn, and fun, covering continuous education through cryptocredentials, daily workouts and Blueprint-inspired meals with Bryan Johnson, crypto prizes and career office hours, and residential community life. Monthly rent is listed as $1000 with roommates or $2000 solo, and applicants apply online at ns dot com, with a second application required for those who pass review.

## 5. All it takes is all you got

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/All-it-takes-is-all-you-got?index=0x6605d5eeb5f1c094ada5eab3c6462f772db3c4b25c050f28b9194f3336a326955c8fe51c
- Source: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1773438433714933941
- Shared 28 March 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The author's central claim is that the US government can seize household assets to cover its debts, so the apparent $177 trillion in household assets is not a safety net for the state. The piece cites a Treasury quote that the Social Security and Medicare present-value need is $175.3 trillion, which it says lines up with Stanley Druckenmiller's roughly $200 trillion estimate of all-in US liabilities. It also notes that federal revenue was $1.86 trillion last year and that the dollar is down about 25% in real terms since 2020.

## 6. The introduction to Network States

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-introduction-to-Network-States?index=0x659d053b2a0b2b3afa27e7e7baaf90ab576cc145184a9664a679f6d93003b418e557efff
- Source: https://x.com/balajis/status/1546044290794921984?s=20
- Shared 9 January 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 7. The new market for news

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-new-market-for-news?index=0x66126e53f5aae4bc20500dc7f3afb3ed31ffb5543e2c85b550bd6fe2bb5e58f678ebab2d
- Source: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1776886528758952036
- Shared 7 April 2024, 2 upvotes, 2 comments

PR has become obsolete in the new market for news, so companies should stop hiring public relators and pitching journalists, and should instead build their own audiences through individual creators and direct channels. The argument describes the old model, where PR supplied implicit advertising to journalists who were outnumbered roughly six to one. It says that until around 2013 tech companies got favorable coverage, but in the mid-to-late 2010s that coverage turned into hostile stories. It credits this shift to falling trust in media, lost establishment control over Twitter and Substack, and growing AI creation and social distribution.

## 8. USDC launch video [2018]

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/USDC-launch-video-2018?index=0x67c040414ee2e6f457604e1715fd350585ea9d199f2fbbf2f3209c2d4e513f7da5b37a14
- Source: https://xcancel.com/balajis/status/1895057597218332836
- Shared 27 February 2025, 2 upvotes, 1 comment

## 9. Livestream for the Network State Conference 

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Livestream-for-the-Network-State-Conference?index=0x653f853f9a39b7a17a2c27cef6ce2596fc713810215e9e87d36a17977f4bf5091d5dba19
- Source: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1718928626920362333
- Shared 30 October 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## 10. Regulation, reputation, and power

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Regulation-reputation-and-power?index=0x647f730b82f80fee5fa5815527a990b25f2180c363e6b44c68b71b6240d64dfee902e422
- Source: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1658657270119686144
- Shared 6 June 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

The author argues that the SEC and other regulators are losing power because their reputation, which underpins that power, has declined. Carpenter's book on the FDA is cited as the basis for this framing. The argument gives four reasons: regulators were built to target a few large firms rather than many decentralized actors, they are now arguing their case on social media where citizens can respond, crypto technologies are spreading across jurisdictions including Texas and the EU, and most global GDP and population now sit outside the US.

## 11. First crypto president

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/First-crypto-president?index=0x678e4478359b4471f5cf99ba8a0e0d1a0395fc064703c4ec7a87b39b9ccfa5652b437224
- Source: https://xcancel.com/balajis/status/1881052327278473695?s=19&t=pN7JsQLO3kkFRY2mb7UwVA
- Shared 20 January 2025, 1 upvote, 2 comments

Trump's $59B net worth is now mostly held in cryptocurrency, which it is claimed makes him strongly incentivized to legalize crypto aggressively. The proposal is that he could airdrop TRUMP tokens to US citizens, for example $100 each to 77M Trump voters at a cost of $7.7B, to align his interests with theirs. It notes this would likely be attacked as a conflict of interest, and questions whether such a personal airdrop would be legal, since no politician has previously attempted one at this scale.

## 12. „I was ethnically cleansed out of San Francisco„

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/I-was-ethnically-cleansed-out-of-San-Francisco?index=0x662cf8313875292f825319da4632721b4d55158a1710b47ef8b0d4fe0c1d083609a516ac
- Source: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1784022182097457183
- Shared 27 April 2024, 1 upvote, 1 comment

The text claims that Democrats running San Francisco have driven out tech workers, including its narrator, in what it calls ethnic cleansing. It cites signs reading "die techie scum," smashed windows on Google buses, and a self-driving car burned by a large crowd, and says these crimes go unpunished. It concludes that Democrats want to push out immigrant technologists so they can build a one-party state.

## 13. @balajis: Bitcoin's seizure resistance vs physical gold in the fiat crisis

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/balajis-Bitcoins-seizure-resistance-vs-physical-gold-in-the-fiat-crisis?index=0x697cc7f12a75da2bbfeb375e765aceb4ef985cbe91c641d6812b9fd3898635ed9284aab3
- Source: https://x.com/balajis/status/2017185808848134538
- Shared 30 January 2026, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## 14. The flag of ETH is raised over Wall Street

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-flag-of-ETH-is-raised-over-Wall-Street?index=0x66a3c6294b3000fa363954b6d3715d261d5be97d6f2f8a325d8299b57a44ee25861c7795
- Source: https://x.com/balajis/status/1816695480014741752
- Shared 26 July 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments