one of the hardest working teams, bullets left in the chamber, metrics seem to only improve over time, trying to push consumers to onboard consistently don’t see what’s wrong with it

I’m excited to announce the launch of Prototype, a venture fund focused on investing in frontier technologies. I first entered the crypto industry in 2019 as a regulatory consultant, advising digital asset managers on SEC regulations. Watching my clients deploy capital into such a new and unfamiliar sector inspired me to take my own leap and become a venture investor in the space. Since then, I’ve focused on backing early-stage startups as crypto steadily evolved into an integral part of global financial infrastructure. As crypto becomes more accessible, and as AI lowers the barriers to entrepreneurship, Prototype aims to invest in frontier technologies that empower people to seek opportunities and generate value through their own means. Thank you to the mentors, colleagues, and supporters who helped make this possible. Now it’s time to get to work!

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Today, Payy becomes a network, and privacy becomes native to onchain money. For the past three years, we’ve held an unwavering focus on perfecting onchain privacy. You’ve seen it take shape through Payy Wallet and Payy Card, with 100k organic users and $130M/year in unincentivized stablecoin volume. But while we were building the product, something unexpected happened: dozens of crypto and fintech teams began asking how they could add Payy-level privacy to their own products. These conversations revealed a growing institutional problem. Nearly every bank, fintech, and enterprise is telling us the same thing: They cannot move real capital flows onchain if their financial data is exposed to the world. That’s when it became clear: the infra powering Payy wasn’t just an internal advantage, it was the only battle tested, compliant privacy infrastructure in the market that others could actually use. So we quietly expanded it. And slowly, it became a network. Today we’re announcing Payy Network: Ethereum’s first and only privacy-native EVM L2. How does it work? Every ERC-20 lives in a chain-native privacy pool by default. Direct transfers happen inside the pool, while smart contract interactions automatically pull funds out of the pool to a fresh EVM address. Users and developers don't have to think about privacy, it's magically added to every transaction. - Send an ERC-20 on MetaMask? Private. - Swap on a DEX? Uses a new address every time. - Deposit to liquidity pool? Unlinkable to your other transactions. I firmly believe privacy is the final barrier to critical mass adoption. By removing it, we’re unblocking the path for the $2 quadrillion global payments economy to move onchain, without turning every transaction into a data leak. Finally, privacy isn’t a tradeoff, it’s a default. Welcome to the era of invisible privacy.

Today I’m excited to share that Surf has raised $15M to build the AI platform for crypto research and trading — led by @PanteraCapital with participation from @cbventures and @DCGco. Surf comes from a very simple idea: AI that actually helps you research, trade, and invest - starting with crypto.

4/ Speaker Release: From Automation to Autonomy: The Investment Thesis for AI-Powered Robots Esteemed Speakers: Nihal Maunder @nihal_maunder from @PanteraCapital Yixin Ren @RenYixinaha from HSG Anna Bertha @anna_brth from @DCGco

XRP Seoul 2025 was truly unforgettable. 💫 3,000+ participants from 40+ countries came together with passion, energy, and community spirit to shape the future of XRP·XRPL Ecosystem. 🌍 This is just the beginning—thank you for being part of the journey with @xrplkorea

hi friends, a personal update: been quietly building @edgeX_exchange edgeX is now the no.2 perp DEX by monthly revenue ($19M), with $5B daily volume and 100k traders. how's this possible in just 10 months? it's all about sub-1bps deepest liquidity (you lose less money by trading), and a CEX-like UX (smooth to use), achieved despite standard fees and restricted API access. good products have numbers, great products shape taste. the founding team stays humble, proactive, and adaptable. with deep MM experience, we prioritize liquidity, trading experience and security above all. it's still day1. moving forward, the goal is to build the most capital-efficient perp dex, and become the aws of liquidity for dreamers. we're hiring - in NYC or remote! it's a great opportunity to learn from @edgeX_KF and the team. I’m focusing on trading community, research, and strategic partnerships.

Yesterday $AVNT @avantisfi smashed all records a 2025 TGE: - 4 simultaneous exchange listings less than an hour apart, from leading exchanges like @upbitglobal, @binance, @BithumbOfficial and @cryptocom. We're grateful to all our new partners for their support. - Hitting $2.2B+ daily spot volumes (top 10 coins overall by volumes), $6B+ perps volumes. - Largest onchain airdrop on @base. This only furthers our vision of building the universal leverage layer - an all encompassing exchange for: - Real World Assets: Perps for equities, metals, FX, commodities, crypto. - Real World Markets: Perps for prediction markets, sports and more. - Zero-fee perps: High leverage scalping products for precision traders. - Stablecoin (avUSD): Native exchange stablecoin, powered by yields from the underlying trading products. - Native money market: Bootstrapped using avUSD, for enhanced supply yield / capital efficiency. Feeling more locked in than ever before given everything we have to ship. Truly grateful for our incredible community, team, investors, advisors and friends. Still day 1. gVanta.

1/ We raised over $20 MILLION to solve one problem: 👉 How do you fix what many call the trillion-dollar “Ponzi problem” the world is facing today?

In middle school, with money earned performing magic shows I opened my first investment account. At Stanford, captivated by the markets, I realized a paradigm shift was on the horizon. Today, I am excited to announce our $5.7M raise, led by @novaholdings. With the developments in AI, I knew I could no longer wait to start @vigillabs. At Vigil, we are building the engine to understand markets in realtime, designed for our own traders.

Today, we are thrilled to announce our $20M raise led by @PanteraCapital. The future of thinking machines is OPEN.

1/ Today, we’re announcing Swapr: the AI-powered DEX aggregator that works for you. In TradFi, order flow segmentation enables PFOF where value accrues to brokers & MMs. Swapr flips that: instead of selling user flow, it identifies high-value users and improves their execution.

Everclear has secured a strategic investment from the NEAR Foundation to scale Crosschain Clearing for Digital Assets. Capital has been deployed via equity, $CLEAR acquisition, and an operational loan. Here's what the @NEARProtocol and Everclear partnership unlocks! ↓

1/ Robinhood chose Arbitrum over Solana for their $18.9T tokenized stock play. But it wasn't about speed—it was about control. Solana is rapidly closing the infrastructure gap for institutional adoption by embracing offchain compute. Could the next Robinhood choose differently? 🧵👇