Funding the future of automation in deep tech and finance. By @rleshner @tarunchitra

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Robot Ventures retweeted
The USD.infra Vault Is Now Open 🔓 The Internet runs on digital infrastructure. Now with DAWN, that infrastructure is financeable on-chain. Introducing the USD.infra Vault: A new way to finance digital infrastructure powering AI compute and connectivity.
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Praxis is building a new city in Uruguay. Construction has begun. Residents move in 2027. Thank you for joining us for the beginning of our long journey. More in @NYTimes.
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DAWN’s deployment partner, Andrena, has been successfully deploying wireless infrastructure for years. We’re expanding the network, and now with the USD.infra Vault we’re launching a way to fund and earn from this critical next generation of digital infrastructure.
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THAT'S MOTION BULK has surpassed $250M in volume on mainnet!
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I did more experiments over the last few weeks (h/t @sui414 for inspo) Pricing idiosyncrasies between @vercel & @OpenRouter suggest long-running agent workflows should load balance across multiple gateways to max caching / minimize price (a sort of max flow-min cut for routing)
Every successful marketplace has winners and losers But some participants make it more of a dark forest than a chessboard We find some direct evidence for this — and some simple math to make these marketplaces more robust to rogue inference providers!
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Caching Cheaters on OpenRouter

The full essay — with a more philosophical market-structure framing, the economics of open source, and the complete analysis and the appendices referenced — can be found here. @OpenRouter is the

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Praxis built AI for collective action. Join our first campaign to populate a new city. Our initial goal is 2500 Commitments to Move. praxisnation.com
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New blog post: We had a million lines of Python to clean up. On September 2nd @Teknium asked Hermes Agent to do it. 1,393 subagents and nineteen hours later, the codebase was 34.4% smaller, saving us nearly $2m in engineering hours. nousresearch.com/refactoring…
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The USD.infra Vault is coming. DAWN is bringing the cash flows of digital infrastructure on-chain as yield for institutions and retail. We built the network. Now we’re launching the RWA protocol for AI compute, connectivity, and edge infrastructure. Sept. 22, 2 PM UTC. 🔒
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Introducing Finality: Chargebacks for Stablecoins Trillions of dollars are transacted today without a way to dispute a single payment. Finality is the first to give enterprises dispute resolution to their customers without reversing blockchain transactions. We're inviting payment providers, LPs, and arbitrators to help shape the network ahead of broader access.
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Since 2024, DAWN has raised $40M to date to tokenize AI and connectivity infrastructure. This has been led by @DragonflyVC, @polychain, @vaneck_us, and more amazing investors. We’ve spent that time building. Here’s what’s ahead 👇
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BACK IN BULK app.bulk.trade
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We're proud to see @bulktrade's mainnet finally go live. In a sea of perp DEXes, Bulk stands out for its bleeding-edge performance and UX. Every chain has its own exchange, but Bulk will be the cornerstone for trading on @solana.
The time is now. app.bulk.trade
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Most investors do not appreciate the important role that @LayerZero_Core is playing in crypto messaging and interoperability. I am so impressed with the vision of Bryan, Simon, and the team.
Messaging/interop protocols have been critical infra since the proliferation of L1s, app-specific chains, and the rollup-centric roadmap. As many more assets move on-chain, the need for ubiquitous interoperability only grows exponentially. It's becoming pretty clear to me that @LayerZero_Core 's interop business ALONE will probably grow into nine-figure ARR very quickly. Much more to come from the team.
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Local AI agents should be easy to set up. That’s why @NousResearch is bringing one-click local model setup to Hermes Agent across NVIDIA systems on Windows and Linux.
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Behind the scenes of the RWA Summit, @fintechfrank asked me to share this photo because he looks “tan and hot”
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Having spent my 20s writing many custom physics simulations, there was always the dream of making a “just in time” simulation for everything from hep-th to cond-mat (hell, half of my time @DEShawResearch was spent trying to do this) Excited to back a team with the ambitions of grandeur of making gauge theory and finite element methods coexist, seamlessly
I'm delighted to share that Physical Superintelligence PBC (PSI), which I co-founded with @matthew_pines and @AKlokus, has raised a $58M seed round to build the world's most advanced research lab for discovering and commercializing transformative physics breakthroughs at scale with AI, safely, verifiably, and for broad public benefit.
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BREAKING: Nous Portal is still up Sources report that it is still serving hundreds of models at 20% off, 80% off GPT-5.6 Luna and Luna Pro, exclusive free models, bundled tool usage, flexible team features, and powerful cloud agents portal.nousresearch.com/sign…
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Levered Callable Capital is live Stake @aave USDC/USDT deposits to earn +20% USD APY $15M initial cap app.3jane.xyz/lcc
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