Blockchain VC investing in decentralized networks. Est. 2015
NYC/BOS/MIA/SF
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Thank you to @TIME for the recognition, and to our LPs and the entire @coinfund team for fueling this journey. Cheers to many more years building the future of decentralized networks.
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Getting 3 papers accepted to NeurIPS is no joke. Congrats to @AlexanderLong and the entire @Pluralis team!
We are fortunate to have 3 papers accepted to this years NeurIPS.
The first is AsyncMesh - a technique for asynchronous updates across both data and pipeline parallelism simultaneously.
Second is NuMuon, which shows the low-rank structure we observe in Subspace Networks is also present and can be exploited under Muon-style optimisers.
The third introduces a technique to finetune open-weight models in the Protocol Learning setup. This is significant as prior to this work, this kind of distributed training required architectural changes, and hence starting from scratch.
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When @BlackRock is telling you that AI and crypto are converging, believe them.
Our latest research paper explores the growing connection between AI and digital assets and explains why broad AI adoption may drive new demand, utility and applications across the digital asset economy. blackrock.com/us/individual/…
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Introducing Prime Sandboxes:
MicroVM sandboxes purpose-built for RL training.
Model training requires running tens of thousands of concurrent sandboxes, leading to complex and costly configuration. We built Prime Sandboxes for our own team. Today we're releasing them publicly.
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Always astounding how Trace keeps pushing the envelope of global payment rails
Trace Finance is a @money2020 Money Awards finalist in two categories: Payments & Commerce and Infrastructure.
Regulated rails for stablecoins, built for emerging markets. Winners announced live in Las Vegas on October 18.
Proud of this team.
money2020.com/awards/finalis…
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Miami happy hours return tonight 🥂
Kickoff is at 6pm! We can't wait to hear what you've been building.
Register below ↓ luma.com/u15xjw5c
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What's interesting is that crypto markets seem to have completely shrugged off the CLARITY cloture vote failure.
ETH and BTC are at local highs, and a number of long standing projects pushing prices up. Also privacy/decentralized AI narrative is pushing market higher in crypto.
Here we go again! The WSJ is working on a story blaming Coinbase and me personally for the CLARITY Act not passing.
The Journal has repeatedly been hostile to CLARITY in its reporting, regurgitating bank lobby talking points, while I’ve spent years pushing for crypto legislation, but that’s not stopping them from trying to reverse the blame.
The boring TLDR: in January I opposed a draft of the bill going into a committee vote, because it needed a lot of work on DeFi, tokenization, CFTC authority, and stablecoin rewards. At the time, the bill had major issues that would have harmed crypto. Support was fractured, and it wasn’t passable. We worked with a number of parties who improved the bill and made it passable. All four of the items I called out were fixed in the draft that then went through the committee about four months later. I'm proud to have done it, and would do it again, because it helped create a better bill. One step of many along the way.
The final draft of CLARITY that went to the Senate was great, and I strongly supported it. I'll continue showing up for our customers and pushing for clear rules that treat crypto fairly, even if those who feel threatened by crypto try to plant false stories. It's a shame that the WSJ takes direction from bank lobbyists instead of reporting the truth, but luckily, people are smart enough to see through it these days, and it backfires on them every time.
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Catena has received preliminary conditional OCC approval to establish a national trust bank.
We're building a trust bank for businesses whose AI agents use money, pairing programmable controls with custody and fiduciary responsibility.
catena.com/blog/catena-recei…
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The future is onchain.
The SEC’s Innovation Exemption clears a path for tokenized equities where the onchain security is the actual share.
“A defined U.S. route for trading real tokenized stocks on public blockchains.”
@CoinDesk on what changes: coindesk.com/business/2026/0…
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Catena is live on @Arc from day one.
Catena is a new kind of financial platform for AI-operated businesses and their agents. It brings together accounts, fiat and stablecoin money movement, agent identity, policies and controls, assurance protection, and a complete evidence trail in one system.
Starting today, Catena customers can convert fiat into USDC, hold it in their Catena accounts, and send it on Arc mainnet. Agents can also make governed payments that settle on Arc under Catena’s multi-rail policy and approval controls, with evidence that can be reviewed and verified afterward.
Stablecoins move value across borders almost instantly at low cost. For agents, that is useful, but it is only part of the story.
Just as importantly, stablecoins make money movement programmable, with rules encoded in the movement itself rather than applied at the edges. This gives AI safety constraints real force and creates evidence that can be independently verified.
Stablecoins do not make agents safe by default. But even if an agent becomes misaligned, it cannot bypass authority that is enforced cryptographically outside the AI.
That is the difference between giving an agent money and giving it governed access to banking across multiple payment rails. Rules are enforced before and during execution, and every action leaves a record that can be verified and audited afterward.
The evidence trail does more than make agent activity auditable. It also creates the foundation for a new kind of protection for agent payments. More on that soon.
Arc makes programmable stablecoins more powerful with a network designed specifically for fast, predictable financial activity. It is an open, EVM-compatible Layer 1 built for financial markets, real-time money movement, and agentic economic activity.
An agent should not need to acquire or manage a separate volatile token just to spend dollars. Arc uses stablecoins as gas, no other token needed.
An agent should not have to guess at network fees. Arc provides predictable, dollar-based fees.
An agent should not have to wait days, hours, or even minutes for a payment to settle. Arc provides deterministic sub-second finality.
Arc is purpose-built for stablecoin payments and financial markets, rather than for every possible on-chain use case. Its design is intended to keep financial activity from competing with unrelated speculative traffic for capacity.
Arc’s architecture is also designed to support privacy for sensitive financial activity alongside the compliance and reporting requirements of financial institutions.
Arc provides financial infrastructure for programmable money. Catena provides the financial platform businesses need to put that money to work through agents while keeping control.
Money for Agents. Control for You.
Try Catena: app.catena.com
Explore Arc: arc.io
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Our next @coinfund Miami happy hour is this coming Tuesday, September 22nd, at 6 pm 🥂
Come nerd out with us about crypto. RSVP here ↓ luma.com/u15xjw5c
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What must be the most crypto-bullish SEC in 20 years, just put forward rules that will allow tokenized securities to trade on public blockchains with AMMs and liquidity pools.
This is a huge step forward for cryptoassets, and an opportunity to prove out crypto primitives on real use cases.
LFG!
🚨 TODAY: The SEC issued an order granting temporary, conditional exemptive relief to Tokenized Securities Venues from the definition of “exchange” in the Exchange Act to trade tokenized NMS stock using innovative permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools.
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we've just released our first foundation model - open-1b. unlike models by other AI labs, which require that you trust their training process, open-1b is fully auditable and replayable.
you can take any checkpoint, re-run it using our custom kernels, and get a bit-identical result across nvidia and apple hardware. it uses compiler, kernel, and training technology we've been building for years.
if the world is going to offload more of its intelligence to machines --> you should be able to trust them
open-1b: the first model you don’t have to trust
Auditable training is the best defense against the future of AI we’re being warned about
open-1b is a milestone toward verifiable AI, a goal that is absolutely necessary for the future of intelligence
gensyn.ai/news/introducing-o…
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ATC features George Christopher (@g_christopher8), Principal Investor at @coinfund, a crypto-focused investment firm founded in 2015. The firm invests across blockchain, decentralized technologies, and financial infrastructure, supporting founders from early stage through growth. CoinFund combines deep crypto expertise with experience across technology, finance, research, and venture investing.
George believes companies should be careful not to let AI hype dictate their entire strategy.
For him, the smarter approach is to use AI where it creates real value today, while staying realistic about how uncertain the future still is. AI can improve workflows, productivity, and decision-making, but it shouldn’t become the single bet a company depends on to succeed.
Where do you think companies are getting AI right, and where are they moving too fast? Share your thoughts in the comments.
🎧 Tune in to Around The Coin with Stephen Sargeant (@lifesgt)
Now streaming on all major platforms.
🔗aroundthecoin.com/podcast/wh…
#aroundthecoin #podcast #Fintech #Crypto #AI #Payments
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Our Head of Venture Investing and Managing Partner @pakman will be in Amsterdam for @Legends4Legends this October 1st🎙️
I’ll be speaking at Legends4Legends on 1 October in Amsterdam, alongside investors, founders and institutional leaders working at the forefront of these developments.
What makes this event different is the format: no sponsors, a carefully selected speaker lineup and room for candid discussion with peers and specialists.
If you’re an institutional allocator looking to deepen your understanding of the future of finance and fintech, I’d encourage you to join us. Hope to see you there!
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Today, @KrakenFX and Veda expand Earn to tokenized stocks.
→ strategy @sentora
→ tokenized stocks @xstocksfi
→ wallet @privy_io
→ on @solana
→ yield @kamino
→ interop @chainlink
Kraken is the world’s first platform to offer yield on tokenized stocks, starting with SPYx, QQQx, and NVDAx.
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Catch @flex4blox at @DAF_Global November 13th in New York 🎙️
What is actually getting funded in onchain finance right now?
Alex Felix, Co-Founder & CIO at @coinfund , joins DAF to discuss where capital is moving across stablecoins, onchain finance, autonomous agents and 24/7 financial infrastructure.
Looking forward to having his investor perspective on stage.
Join the room where capital, infrastructure and digital assets come together:
eblockchainconvention.com/di…
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Miami @coinfund happy hours are in season and in session 🌴
If you're a builder in Miami or just curious about crypto, join us. Bring a friend!
Tuesday, Sept 22, 6pm → luma.com/u15xjw5c
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If anyone is at @allinsummit this week and want to meet to talk about crypto, fintech, compute, or decentralized AI — hit me up!
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