I'm excited to share 26 ideas in user-owned tech! We @ElectricCapital invest $1M to $20M in user-owned technology that gives people control, privacy, and access. 6 ideas to highlight: In Finance as Entertainment... - Spectator capital: Live stream audiences need ways to financially participate in outcomes. What it could look like: A platform that lets audiences stake on live content. Participation makes watching more fun, but currently viewers are limited to tips and subscriptions. This platform lets reality TV audiences stake predictions on who gets eliminated, or lets audiences copytrade as a streamer shares their trading session. - Opinion markets: Prediction market platforms need markets that resolve on collective belief, not just events. What it could look like: A platform that generates market-ranked lists. Users stake positions on where they believe others will rank these items. This platform creates lists for the best pizza in NYC, the top wines under $20, the most influential movies of the last decade, or the best AI developer tools, all ranked by the market. Lists resolve weekly based on stake-weighted rankings. - Drama launchpads: Individual storytellers need funding and distribution platforms now that they can produce dramas more cheaply than studios. What it could look like: A UGC platform for short-form drama. Creators produce episodes with AI video tools: mafia boyfriend sagas, secret billionaire reveals, revenge thrillers. Fans unlock episodes with tokens and tip creators directly. Creators earn based on viewership. ReelShort generated $700M+ revenue in Q1’25 with low-budget, studio-made drama series. This platform combines YouTube UGC content with ReelShort’s video format. In Fintech & Defi... - Non-crypto correlated yield: Stablecoin holders need yield that does not drop when BTC price drops. What it could look like: A platform that brings real-world infrastructure yields to stablecoin holders. Yield could come from data center project bonds, solar installations, and EV charging networks with predictable cash flows and no correlation to crypto. - Globally accessible equities: Global investors need direct ownership of foreign opportunities with low friction and costs. What it could look like: A financial product that replicates equity ownership with price exposure, no funding rate, and no expiration. A trader in the Philippines builds a US tech portfolio. A Canadian builds Korean semiconductor exposure. - New forms of insurance: Businesses need fast, transparent coverage for operational risks that traditional insurance cannot provide. What it could look like: A platform that uses prediction markets to create new insurance products. A hotel chain can buy hurricane protection for its Florida properties. A ski resort can hedge against a warm winter. Capital providers supply liquidity in exchange for uncorrelated yield. Read all 26 ideas below.

1/ As consumer agents start to take off with Muse, Instinct, and others to come We wanted to build a tool that would help researchers understand what’s actually happening under the hood We were especially motivated by reports of Instinct losing users’ money Here’s a demo of our Interceptor tool with Muse:

The cryptographic world computer: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties. FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.

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We're announcing Elastic InfiniBand Partitions in SFC. You can now get RDMA connected nodes reserved, change plans, and sell your whole contract on the fly. That’s not “sell to spot”, that’s “sell the whole contract”. Launch the 30-day hero run on Monday, hit the snag on Tuesday, get out of the contract on Wednesday. Running a PaaS and your customers need their own partitions? Create thousands of partitions, one for each customer. Lots of providers give IB, but all on the same partition, which means it’s not secure enough for production. sfcompute.com/news/elastic-i…

The most important open source projects of the future are going to look more like frameworks rather than finished products. Your AIs will build you the the last-mile product logic and UX, but they'll pull in the best infra for the hard/boring stuff like security, auth, performance, lifecycle management, data storage. Some days when I'm working on Quest, I'm not sure whether I'm building a safe harness for humans, or a harness framework for AIs to make safe harnesses for humans.

profit isnt profit until it's realized Perps Hyperliquid

Very proud of our team for executing on @legendtrade 's growth the past few months. They're killing it across multiple channels with a small but deadly team of only 6, with a fraction of capital of basically everyone else on this list (we've raised $5M total, vs the tens of hundreds of millions raised by others here.) Onwards, onwards.

Most AI tools force you to choose: learn dev-oriented workflows or leak your data to frontier labs / hyperscalers via data connectors. Today we’re open sourcing @puntium's Quest: a privacy first AI harness that your *entire* org can actually use. Check it out 👇

We @ElectricCapital are open sourcing Quest - a harness for privacy-aware companies Run your own models, be thoughtful about which data is shared with model companies, & guardrails to make sure non-technical users don't accidentally leak sensitive data We use it every day 👇

Today we are open sourcing Quest, an AI harness that we built at @ElectricCapital, used by all of our teams every day. Deploying AI to a whole organization is not easy. We looked at many, many options. Ultimately, there were two reasons that led us to build our own harness: 🧵

Even more valuable than tracking near:native price, you should listen to what @ilblackdragon is saying about the future. We were seed investors in near:native in 2018 and everything Illia said has come true. There are a dozen more amazing investments you could make if you listen to him.

I built a trading bot with Jev! Jev decides if it should "buy" or "sell", given the price feed of an asset pair, and executes real trades. It uses Monad to place the orders on Kuru's on-chain order book in every 300ms block. Demo link → jev-trader.vercel.app/

whens the last time someone from CT got 100k+ views on a fresh YouTube account in 5 videos? @apemoney is cooking on our founder series and Day in the Life content more channels, more content, more Legend very soon 🤫

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The hardest problems in computer science rn: - Solving Millennium Prize problems - Memory safety in the Linux kernel - Pasting images reliably over ssh

New video with orangie live on YT

This is extremely bullish for open weight models and running your own infrastructure.

If you’re a big perps or equities trader, hit my DMs. I want to spend a day with you and tell your story - will come to you, Anywhere in the world ⚡️

Since launch 4 months ago, we've been testing and iterating and building on what makes Legend the greatest trading platform in the world. We believe that we've now found it and are officially launching the product out of Alpha. - We've done ~$800M in trading volume - We're now onboarding ~1,000 signups a day - Our initial feature set is built and ready to be scaled - [redacted] coming soon And most importantly of all, we've found a group of users/friends who want to see us win and believe in what we're building. A place for pro traders and new traders alike to become Legend.

Introducing the Metropolis global hackathon Six weeks to build the next generation of startups on Monad. 4 tracks. Over $250K in prizes for builders. Submissions end October 13th. monad.xyz/metropolis