Daily TEA – Crypto, Chips, and Radical Care
Bermuda, Solana memecoins, Ralph, privacy AI, Tesla, cancer founder mode
Hello, dear TEA-mates—here’s what you need to know today.
1. 🏝️ Bermuda Plans Fully Onchain National Economy with Circle and Coinbase
The Government of Bermuda unveiled plans to become the world’s first fully onchain national economy, partnering with Circle and Coinbase to use USDC and blockchain infrastructure across public services, finance, and education. Premier E. David Burt said the initiative aims to cut costs, keep more value circulating locally, and position Bermuda as a global model for regulated, nation-scale crypto adoption. Read More (https://www.theblock.co/post/386159/bermuda-coinbase-circle-onchain-economy)[1]
🫖 TEA For Thought: This is such a huge milestone—crypto and blockchain are stepping into sovereign territory.
2. 🤖 Solana’s Creator Economy Powers AI Builders via Bags and RALPH
Open-source AI founders are increasingly using Solana’s BagsApp to launch “memecoins” that pay out creator fees, turning trading activity into funding for real software rather than pure speculation. Ralph Wiggum, Geoffrey Huntley’s autonomous Claude coding agent, has become a flagship example: it is widely praised by top builders, while the endorsed $RALPH token channels royalties and the creator’s own earnings back into liquidity and ongoing development, helping onboard more AI and startup talent onchain despite high risk and no equity claims. Read More
🫖 TEA For Thought: Developers can now build apps with AI, then use ICO-style tokens to raise capital and keep building on top—an incredible collision of crypto and AI.
3. 🛡️ Signal Founder Launches Privacy-First AI Chatbot Confer
Signal co-founder Moxie Marlinspike has introduced Confer, a privacy-conscious AI chatbot designed to feel like ChatGPT or Claude while preventing user conversations from being used for training or advertising. Confer encrypts prompts and responses using passkeys and runs models in trusted execution environments so even the operator cannot see raw user data, and offers both a free tier and a $35-per-month plan for heavier use. Read More (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/moxie-marlinspike-has-a-privacy-conscious-alternative-to-chatgpt/)[5]
🫖 TEA For Thought: The real demand may be for AI that runs locally on personal devices, where users truly own their data, rather than relying on a centralized “privacy-focused” model—we’ll see which vision wins.
4. 🚗 Tesla’s AI5 Chip Nears Completion as Musk Pushes 9-Month Cadence
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company’s next-generation AI5 chip is nearly complete, with AI6 already in progress and future generations planned on a nine-month development cycle. AI5 will succeed Tesla’s current AI4 hardware for Full Self-Driving and Optimus, while later chips are expected to power large-scale AI compute in Tesla’s data centers and become a major in-house advantage. Read More (https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-ai5-chip-nears-completion-elon-musk-teases-9-month-development-cadence/)[7]
🫖 TEA For Thought: Future versions like AI7 could realistically power AI compute in space—this trajectory makes that scenario feel less like sci-fi and more like an eventual milestone.
5. 🧬 “Founder Mode on Cancer” Shows Radical, Data-Driven Care
Elliot Hershberg’s “Going Founder Mode On Cancer” profiles GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij’s aggressive, founder-style approach to treating his cancer, combining deep diagnostics with dozens of personalized and repurposed therapies. After exhausting standard options, Sid built a cross-disciplinary team, used intensive profiling to justify novel combinations of treatments, and ultimately shrank his cancer to operable status before rendering it undetectable, with mRNA neoantigen vaccines and close monitoring now focused on preventing recurrence. Read More (
https://centuryofbio.com/p/sid)
🫖 TEA For Thought: This was a deeply inspiring read—a powerful way to kick off a short week with an example of turning a brutal diagnosis into a relentlessly proactive “founder mode” journey.
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