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Over the past few months dcf cap has accumulated almost 1% of the grass supply It hits all the right narratives - high revenue / growth, ai, and decentralized compute There’s low emissions as they paid node operators in usdc and investors have been vesting for a bit already And the team has very clearly said the equity is worthless and everything is for the token… compare to vvv, which is a multi b ai bet even with equity v token drama It hasn’t caught a bid because the revenues are off chain We just got our first re rating as they proved last year and 2026 H1 revenue was real We will get our next when their projected 2026 revenue of $60 - 70M is proven real And another when they finally do some meaningful buybacks instead of reinvesting Also helps that Austin and the @Delphi_Digital team continue to support them Note: dcf cap holds @grass
$GRASS is one of the most interesting tokens at the intersection of crypto and AI as it 1) plays a critical role across model training and usage, 2) has a triple digit annual growth rate, and 3) is trading at ~6x forward revenue with strong gross margins despite the above. In my opinion, as revenue growth accelerates in the second half of the year, new product releases (LCR) approach, and the team takes the market's feedback to heart and increases the cadence of financial and traction updates, we will likely see a re-rating to closer to my own estimate of fair value which is approximately $GRASS at $1.50. Grass Network is a direct beneficiary of continued growth in AI usage by both providing the major frontier labs the structured data needed for model pretraining and also as it expands its product set to provide real-time data to models during inference. One of the major pushbacks to Grass has been the lack of frequent updates of their financial progress which is a reason Grass is still trading at what is in my opinion such an attractive relative valuation. I think the team recognizes this dynamic and this report is them hearing the market's feedback and making the right adjustments. Great sign when an exceptional team recognizes the areas for improvement and levels up.
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Chapter II
Ethena is partnering with @Binance as our first venue for the extension of the basis trade into equity perpetuals, one of the most exciting updates to the USDe collateral backing since launch. This expands the addressable market of underlying collateral from $2.5 trillion of crypto to $150 trillion+ of real-world assets. As part of the partnership, bStocks will serve as tokenized spot collateral, hedged with Binance USDT-denominated equity perpetuals - the same delta-neutral structure Ethena has securely executed across crypto assets since inception. Importantly, Binance provides lower ADL priority for eligible delta-neutral accounts including Ethena's, adding another layer of risk mitigation for USDe holders. Binance equity basis has averaged ~11%+ annualized over the past 6 months, while open interest has grown on average ~30% per month in the last 3 month period. We expect the market opportunity size for equity perpetuals to far exceed the $15b+ of crypto perpetuals captured by Ethena last cycle. Allocations begin today.
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A public company just added $SYN to its treasury. At Hypercall, we’re building the options infrastructure to help that market grow on Hyperliquid
SonicStrategy has acquired 500,000 $SYN tokens via open-market purchases at ~US$0.23 (~US$115,000). Initial treasury position in on-chain derivatives. $SYN is tied to Hypercall, a decentralized options protocol building on Hyperliquid. 🇺🇸 $SONIF 🇨🇦 $SONIC 🔗 sonicstrategy.io/news/sonics… @SynapseProtocol
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I'm bullish on the on-chain options space as a whole. Options have massive product market fit on the retail side, as evidenced by it being Robinhood's biggest trading revenue line, and on the institutional side based on how much global volume they do. It's also the biggest tradfi market that hasn't really seen material growth on-chain. In crypto, perps have dominated because they're simple to understand and it's easy to build up liquidity on a trading pair. But perps are path dependent. You can be right about where something ends up and still get liquidated on the way there. Oct 10 was a good example of that, and I think it's made people a lot more interested in options, where you know your max loss going in. On-chain options have been attempted before, but the models were subpar. We're now seeing teams build models that mirror centralized designs, which lets market makers provide liquidity on par with or better than Deribit. On-chain options also now benefit from perps liquidity, which makes it possible to offer RWA markets in a way that wasn't possible before. This is one of the reasons I particularly like $SYN. Aside from being incredibly bullish on its founder @trajan0x, I think the product itself is very compelling. Hypercall is built on top of Hyperliquid, so market makers can hedge there and use those same positions as margin. That means Hypercall can list options on anything with a Hyperliquid perp, whether that's majors, alts or the tokenized equities on TradeXYZ. You can already trade same-day and daily SpaceX options there, which you can't do on a traditional exchange, and the same will be true for pre-IPO names once Hyperliquid lists them. Anyone with a wallet can use it, it's USDC margined and it trades 24/7. I think the token side of things is also very compelling. • No equity entity, so all cash flows are governed by SYN • No VCs and no unlocks, with 88% of supply circulating • Builder codes for frontend revenue share With the governance structure in mind, I'm including a proposal below to kick off value accrual for the token. It has three parts. 1) 70% of protocol fees go toward buying SYN on the open market on Hyperliquid. The SYN that gets bought is distributed to SYN stakers. 2) 30% of fees go to SLP, the USDC vault that provides market making liquidity on Hypercall. Rewards are time weighted so people can't deposit right before a distribution and farm it. 3) Traders who stake SYN get fee discounts from 5% up to 40%, similar to how Hyperliquid does its staking tiers. There's a 24 hour activation period and a 7 day unstaking cooldown. The SYN thresholds for each tier still need to be ratified by the DAO. The split applies to fees actually collected, after discounts and builder/referral shares, and there are no new emissions. The proposal is pending a DAO vote. snapshot.org/#/s:synapse-gov…
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Replying to @theo2pi
75% of the top AI labs and multiple F100/mag7 companies, actually
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Grass has been criticized in the past for its comms. TLDR here - all revenue flows to foundation (no equity), all reported revenue checked by a 3rd party (report attached)
Grass DataCo Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Grass Foundation, provides data infrastructure to leading AI labs training frontier models. We're publishing an independent attestation of its revenue through Q2 2026, conducted by Regen Financial. Full report: grass.io/resources/grass-att…
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TLDR on @grass -Revenue is real -Value accrues to the token, not to an equity company above it -A longer write-up is coming on why the token is the value accruing vehicle Grass generates revenue off-chain, so it's harder to track than a defi protocol. On top of that, they're reinvesting rather than returning capital to holders. That combination has led to max skepticism. Good to see them address it with transparency on revenue and entity structure. On reinvesting, I think it's the right call at this stage. With no equity layer above the token, growth compounds toward the token rather than toward a company beside it. My read is capital return comes earlier than it would at a startup, just not from day one the way most crypto projects do it. They're expecting ~$70m in revenue this year, with additional products likely in the pipeline on top of that. Brief summary of their financials from the July call: nitter.net/YanLiberman/status/207…
Grass DataCo Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Grass Foundation, provides data infrastructure to leading AI labs training frontier models. We're publishing an independent attestation of its revenue through Q2 2026, conducted by Regen Financial. Full report: grass.io/resources/grass-att…
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Disc: Delphi Ventures are investors in Grass
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Even though I talk to @YanLiberman daily, listening to him on pods is still worth it because he oozes alpha on complex topics in the simplest way possible This episode was especially great because @JasonYanowitz + @santiagoroel ask the hard hitting questions on everyones mind rn
NEW POD We Cover: – Does the rally have legs? – Yan’s six-token portfolio – His favorite catchup trade – AI changing crypto venture – How @Delphi_Ventures evaluates founders @YanLiberman @JasonYanowitz @santiagoroel TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:34 Does Crypto’s Rally Have Legs? 05:49 Is AI Outshining Crypto? 10:35 Liquid Tokens Or Venture Bets? 16:17 Ads (Token2049, Avalanche) 17:57 Inside Yan’s Crypto Portfolio 23:25 What Returns Justify Crypto Risk? 29:53 Where Can Crypto Venture Still Win? 37:20 Aerodrome’s Catch-Up Trade 41:16 Why Delphi Backs Emerging Managers 44:42 How Delphi Evaluates Founders 50:29 Stop Trying To Be Clever? 57:53 Is Market Froth Taking Over?
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Synaptrix (@SynaptrixAI) is building a non-invasive neural interface. A foundation model that decodes motor cortex activity, and the hardware and software around it, starting with an EEG headset. For people with paralysis, that's a prosthetic for the mind. Today it steers a wheelchair by thought. Someday it may give back independent control of phones, computers and mobility more broadly. We led their seed in 2025 and couldn't be happier to back @aryangovil and the team. Since then they've built one of the largest publicly known non-invasive motor cortex datasets. members.delphidigital.io/rep…
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Yan Liberman retweeted
AI labs need fresh data, but traditional agents keep getting blocked. This is why @YanLiberman is bullish $GRASS. Its network can scrape live data that centralized data centers and AI agents struggle to access, creating a potential recurring subscription business.
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NEW POD We Cover: – Does the rally have legs? – Yan’s six-token portfolio – His favorite catchup trade – AI changing crypto venture – How @Delphi_Ventures evaluates founders @YanLiberman @JasonYanowitz @santiagoroel TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:34 Does Crypto’s Rally Have Legs? 05:49 Is AI Outshining Crypto? 10:35 Liquid Tokens Or Venture Bets? 16:17 Ads (Token2049, Avalanche) 17:57 Inside Yan’s Crypto Portfolio 23:25 What Returns Justify Crypto Risk? 29:53 Where Can Crypto Venture Still Win? 37:20 Aerodrome’s Catch-Up Trade 41:16 Why Delphi Backs Emerging Managers 44:42 How Delphi Evaluates Founders 50:29 Stop Trying To Be Clever? 57:53 Is Market Froth Taking Over?
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A new episode of Hivemind is live! This week the team breaks down the growing altcoin rally, the rise of social trading, how tokenized stocks are creating an entirely new speculative playground, and more. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:30 Bitcoin Flat, Alts Ripping 00:06:00 Is New Money Entering Crypto? 00:10:10 The Alt-Picker’s Market 00:13:20 Tokenized Stocks & the New On-Chain Meta 00:21:00 Can the On-Chain Mania Last? 00:43:15 ETH, HYPE & the Tokenization Trade 00:51:20 Taking Profits & Managing the Bull Market 01:07:30 What Could Kill the Rally? 01:16:30 VVV, OpenAI & Private Inference
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RT @grass: The world is coming to realize what we've always known. The difference is the data.
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One of the most exciting things about tokenized equities is the ability to bring them onchain and earn extra yield. @SynapseProtocol has been doing some incredible work in the onchain options space for some time. Them integrating into quotrons xstocks pools is incredibly bullish, as it will allow their users to now write covered call strategies against their tokenized equity positions. I have started trading on hypercall for the last few weeks and the 24/7 trading is great. Adding tokenized equities to their platform should only help with liquidity, as it will allow people long to also earn extra yield by writing covered calls against their positions.
Hypercall Earn is live on Ink. With $2,000 in Quotrons rewards. Your xStocks. Your sale price. Premium upfront. Rewards on top. Sell an eligible covered call and earn a share of the campaign.
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Introducing @EthenaPay: the internet money neobank. →Card spend cashback at 5.0% →Best-in-class 6.0% dollar savings rate →Borderless, free, instant global money transfers →Free global onramps in USD, GBP, EUR and local FX →Multi-currency high-rewards savings accounts in local FX →Unified fiat IBAN integration with self-custodial stablecoin accounts →Buy Now Pay Never where your savings rewards covers daily expenses Not coming soon™️. Live now to download on iOS.
Introducing Ethena Pay: the internet money neobank, built on @avax. Live now to download on iOS.
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It’s really inspiring to see the new crop of analysts rise up in crypto @that1618guy has consistently been in our @Delphi_Digital members chat since joining, doing nothing but sharing alpha This message from one of our members is exactly what we do it for
i would be paying a lot of attention to this guy where cashflows exists, u should be incorporating that into ur analysis there are some things on RH which are underpriced and there are about a billion things which have become insanely overpriced like i see stuff that’s trading at like 20-30x+ revenue multiples where annualised cashflows are less than $500k with no real product moat not saying there’s not a trade there, but i think lots of people will get burnt in future, if u haven’t done this basic level of analysis on ur bags u should
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The growth of equity and commodity linked perpetuals has been the most exciting development in the space in the last year, with RWA perpetuals already growing to >50% of Hyperliquid crypto volumes last month, and aggregate Binance RWA volume at 2x BTC-USDT last month. High conviction view that this is one of the very few 100x left in the space, and I expect both open interest and volume to exceed crypto perpetuals across all venues within the next ~24 months. For Ethena this is the most exciting opportunity since we started: effectively expanding the underlying asset base from ~$2.5tn of crypto to >$120tn of equities. USDe peaked at ~$15b on crypto alone and we expect by the end of this next cycle the opportunity here will unlock scaling to a multiple of that number. While we would have liked to do this earlier, we took a cautious approach to what was a nascent market and waited until we saw deep, liquid markets with a data history we could study before moving into the opportunity at scale. Over the next weeks we will begin deployments into equity basis across the venues where we already execute crypto basis with the same battled tested infrastructure used to date. Become more clear this cycle that the very best businesses in crypto aren't just levered to the crypto cycle but can be flexible enough to reposition their businesses every 4 years when crypto is in the gutter. Going forward the growth and through-the-cycle resilience of Ethena will be tied more closely to basis on these markets rather than crypto alone.
Extending USDe backing: basis on equity perpetuals. Equity perpetuals now carry nearly >$6bn of open interest across 200 contracts on the same venues Ethena already executes, growing >10x since March. Funding rates on equity perpetuals have paid 15-20% on average, >5x the Bitcoin funding rates in 2026, with near-zero correlation to crypto funding. The underlying asset base is >$150 trillion compared to ~$2.5 trillion of crypto, making this the most scalable extension of the basis allocation to date. We expect RWA perpetuals to eclipse crypto allocations in USDe's backing within 12-24 months. Safe implementation of the equity basis trade at large size requires the exact infrastructure Ethena has already operated at scale with 0bps of impairment on over $30b of mint and redeem flow for >2.5 years: precise delta-neutral execution at scale, secure off-exchange custody & settlement, and institutional-grade security practices. The first partner exchange announcements and deployments will begin over the course of the next few weeks. Details in the link below:
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A new episode of Hivemind is live! This week the team breaks down whether the latest crypto rally has staying power, which assets could lead, and why the return of the debasement trade may signal a shift in the market. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Is the Crypto Bull Market Back? 08:55 HYPE & the Next Alt Season 15:35 What Wins This Cycle? 21:05 Consensus Trades vs. Hidden Alpha 29:20 Zcash & the Next Rotation 52:20 NFTs & Robinhood Chain 01:04:35 Positioning for the Next Leg 01:12:30 The Debasement Trade Is Back
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