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  Shannon Sheriff@shannonsheriff

  Tokenization

  Securitize just added 13 more U.S. stocks to its Solana lineup, including Exxon, Disney, Uber and GameStop. That's 25 tokenized stocks in under a month. Here's what you actually get: 1. Each token is backed 1:1 by a real share held in custody 2. Dividends go to the holder, and so do voting rights where the shares have them 3. Trades settle in USDC, even outside market hours 4. Disney, Exxon and the rest didn't issue these tokens or sign off on them If you're explaining tokenization to normies, start with a company they know. Disney lands faster than “RWA.”

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  Shannon Sheriff@shannonsheriff

  AI search

  Google, Microsoft and OpenAI plan to honor one robots.txt tag that tells AI not to train on your site. Careful before you add it. At Microsoft, it only stops training. Your pages can still show up in Copilot answers unless you block that separately. At Google, it also pulls you out of Gemini app answers, though it won't touch regular search or AI Mode. Want AI to recommend you? Don't block it.

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  Shannon Sheriff@shannonsheriff

  Tokenization

  The list of companies objecting to tokenized trading of their stock on OKXICE just grew from 38 to 50. That's 50 of the 62 companies notified. Some of the newest names ↓ Nvidia Micron Nike Costco Reddit Only 12 companies are left that haven't objected.

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  Shannon Sheriff@shannonsheriff

  AI

  AI token prices ↓ 67% since May. AI spending ↑ 122–160% over the same stretch. → Agents reportedly use about 5x the tokens a human does → They run around the clock, so cheaper tokens just mean more work gets done → Lower prices are growing total spend instead of shrinking it

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  Shannon Sheriff@shannonsheriff

  Tokenization

  Tokenized stocks on $ETH just hit $827M. That's up 170% in a year. Here's how it looks as of late October: 1. Ethereum already holds about 54% of all stablecoins 2. Most tokenized stocks are backed 1:1, the same setup stablecoins had before they took off 3. Solana hit a reported record $5.19B in RWAs, and about 1.7M people hold tokenized stocks there 4. Solana picked up roughly 140K new RWA holders in a single week Ethereum has the money. Solana has the people. I don't think they're even running the same race yet.

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  Shannon Sheriff@shannonsheriff

  Platforms

  Meta is now paying YouTubers to post their videos on Instagram the same day they go up on YouTube. Reported deals run from $50K to $500K.

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  Shannon Sheriff@shannonsheriff

  AI search

  Google's AI just cost Reddit more than 1 million search referrals a week! Now its CEO is calling it out. "The reality is, AI Mode does not drive traffic. Not for us, and not to anybody, as far as I know.” What happened ↓ → Search referrals to @Reddit fell by more than 1M a week on average in October → US daily users fell for the first time since its 2024 IPO → Q3 revenue still grew 53% to $895M → **The stock dropped 29.22% on Oct 30, its worst day ever** → Reddit will test making users log in to see most content He also said @Google is "crawling us as hard as ever." Google still takes the content, but sends fewer people back. If the internet's biggest forum can't count on Google traffic, your site can't either.

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  Shannon Sheriff@shannonsheriff

  Platforms

  X now shows you which of your posts got visibility-limiting labels. It's called the Under the Hood report. Check it before you blame the algorithm for a slow month. What it shows: → Post labels like SPAM_HIGH_RECALL → Account-level labels → Posts withheld in certain countries My report: zero labels. 🙏 If yours is clean too, it's the content. Replies are weighted far more than likes in X's ranking code. Open-source code: https://t.co/3kFlhWLChD @XOpenSource Have you checked yours?

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