Partner @Genventurecap investing in machine economy 🦊 Ex Chief Economist & CMO @Consensys 📈 Founder in Web3, roboadvice, data, and fintechblueprint.com
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We cover crypto, AI, and the machine economy.
The weather changes but the stars point in the same direction.
Really enjoyed this conversation with @francescoswiss
AI, Crypto & Web3: The Future of Intelligent Agent w/ @LexSokolin
00:07 - Who is Lex Sokolin
03:39 - The Economics of AI
05:16 - Why Crypto Struggles
07:51 - Web2 vs. Web3 AI
10:46 - DAOs in AI Frameworks
19:57 - The Rise of On-Chain AI Agents
30:35 - The Future of AI & Crypto
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Follow the number on your screen all the way down, and it is a claim on a claim on a claim on the government.
Much of fintech has been about sitting at the top of that stack and renting the rest.
Column, Altruist, and Erebor remove intermediate links rather than add more.
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Lex Sokolin | Generative Ventures retweeted
I am really excited to back @infiniFi
Fixed Income is the best kinds of income. InfiniFi transforms volatile onchain yield into the types of steady yield investments that belong in a mature portfolio.
A clearly useful DeFi primitive that the market will come to appreciate beyond the $50MM of TVL already in place.
infiniFi has raised an additional $3M+, bringing total funding to over $6M as the protocol approaches its Q4 2026 TGE.
In just over a year, infiniFi has already generated more yield than it has raised in outside capital.
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A great paper from BlackRock on the emergence of the machine economy, compute markets, agentic finance and digital assets
We are mainstream team
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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Not another fintech feature war, but robot money
Joseph is naming the real battle here: not another fintech feature war, but who owns the agent that sits between every human and their money. Spolier: it has to be you.
Our stack is now stablecoins + tokenized assets + DeFi + agents. Open rails and verifiable agent identity (and reputation, see Ethereum ERC-8004 -- Trustless Agents) are how that stack stays a commons instead of a new set of siloed walled gardens partitioning the financial system.
$1T of agent-handled financial activity by 2030, $4T by 2035 — and hundreds of billions returned to people via fee compression — only works if the agent serves the user, not the platform.
Web3, the emerging decentralized world wide web is (finally) the user-centric web, after all.
Ethereum is all about credible neutrality and censorship resistance.
MetaMask's Open Money OS (metamask.io/news/metamask-ne…) focuses on empowering users and communities with financial agency -- full control over all aspects of their financial lives.
Sharplink grows share value as it grows ETH and Ethereum ecosystem value as it invests its permanent capital in the emerging Decentralized System of the World.
Very much worth reading the entire article.
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IMO, it's clear Zucks is trying to make a statement with Muse. Time will tell. But he's pushing the pace.
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Another approach to Robot Money
I like the activish angle but I think theme based investing should happen in the context of a larger portfolio review and rebalance
Convik is now live on @virtuals_io.
Describe an investment thesis. Convik builds a weighted portfolio of tokenized stocks & ETFs.
app.virtuals.io/virtuals/100…
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You cannot stop the robots from taking your money
They will flow like water through your wallet and into a merchant POS
This is just the beginning of the agent/data wars: Amazon cuts off Muse. Every platform who has done the hard work of aggregating users is trying to figure out how not to become “dumb pipes”. Do they:
1/ Try to block the agents — but risk pissing off their customers — in favor of only their own agentic experience
2/ Strike BD deals to at least extract $$ from new mode of agentic interaction that accesses their data/platform
3/ …something else??
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Every major financial wave gets called a bubble.
Speculation pays the customer acquisition cost to build new rails before anyone finds the "boring" uses.
Railroads and telecom fiber worked the same way.
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I don’t know but it just seems that capital intensity should equate to high growth software valuation multiples
Certainly there will be punishment to the current regime where you can raise massively on capital intensity and then offload secondary on manufactured traction
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We spent 15 years building better financial dashboards.
Agents are good enough to handle the transactions itself.
The real dividend of automating finance is not efficiency. It is getting your attention back.
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Lex Sokolin | Generative Ventures retweeted
Since this went further than expected - three things the data says and one it doesn't 🤷🏻♂️
- Not fake. Every transfer happened. Dune counts each hop of Bridge's issuance pipeline: mint → hub → relay → issuer → burn. Same dollar, four entries. USDB supply is $32m; in August it turned over 8x a week.
- Two layers aren't the operator at all. Deel pays contractors in DLUSD every first week of the month - 246 wallets in June, 1,260 in September. And 1.1m sub-$1 machine payments in 30 days, worth $36k .
- That machine layer isn't growing (chart). 150k/week in April, 454k peak in July, 174k in late August, 312k now. It predates the $2b spike entirely.
What the data doesn't say: whether any of this is "organic". Bridge dogfooding its own rail is exactly what a Stripe-owned chain should be doing in month five. The question is what shows up that isn't Bridge.
The @tempo team is doing a great job, and I look forward to following the development of their chain.
Congrats @tempo on $2b. Same number, same data, same 30 days - here's what's inside it.
$1.59b is Bridge (@Stablecoin) moving money between its own wallets. $265m is chain exits and liquidity. $90m is USDT retail. $85m runs through @deel contractor stablecoin.
And 1.1m machine payments worth $36k - the part nobody counts, and the part that matters.
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what are you building with @typesafeai ?
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This was a love note to @column bank.
And ideation around what Fintech is turned into.
A Hyperbank
A Deep Fintech
A Neobranch
Check out the Blueprint for what those mean
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Lex Sokolin | Generative Ventures retweeted
Huge deal from @column
This is like @altruist
Repeat founder frustrated with a mere unicorn exit building things from ground up
We started @column with the insane idea to rebuild every component of the financial system from scratch. Today, I think we've finally completed that build.
We're releasing four new products, so any technology company can build at the frontier of financial services.
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