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Still excited from connecting @ethereum thought leaders with NY's finance behemoths; showcasing how the ecosystem will underpin the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. Click through the thread to watch the recordings in order! Full agenda here: ethereumnyc.org/agenda
A month ago we teamed up with @ethecofund, @Etherealize_io, @initc3org, @ethereumfndn to host @ethereum_nyc Nextfin at Cipriani's, opened by @gilswrld, @elkun_peng ,and @not_qz We convened the foremost thinkers, leaders, and regulators, bridging Ethereum, finance, and policy, and are excited to share the recordings today! Huge thanks to our sponsors: @nethermind, @zircuit, @zksync, @UniswapFND, @chainlink, @Securitize, @alt_layer, @wormhole, @DFG__Official, @OctantApp, @CambrianNetwork, @googlecloud, @ethereum_NYC, @HallidayHQ, @inconetwork, @PierTwo_com, @cyberfund, @OpenLedgerEco, @rocksolidHQ, @Vishwa_xyz, @UXLINKofficial, @BitMartExchange, @selfxyz, @0G_labs
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what actually counts as agentic trading? @0xsamgreen of @CambrianNetwork, pete stevenson of PAX Markets and @moonshot6666 of @get_truenorth, moderated by @lastnamelove of @FTDA_US 👇 piped.video/watch?v=WRpf1hY9…
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🚨BASS Speaker Announcement🚨 @0xfishylosopher Junior Partner of @panteracapital
the science of blockchain conference is coming home 🌲 stanford campus. july 30. one day, all frontier @StanfordSBA @StanfordCrypto @theBBFund have been heads down all summer lock your spot: luma.com/basssbc2026
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the science of blockchain conference is coming home 🌲 stanford campus. july 30. one day, all frontier @StanfordSBA @StanfordCrypto @theBBFund have been heads down all summer lock your spot: luma.com/basssbc2026
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Grok 4.5 in ante is such a beast! In our own independent tb 2.1 eval, it is both the fastest and smartest, beats both Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 in their own native Harness and the cost is even lower than GLM 5.2. 🫡
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The roadmap for Antigma since Day 1
Prompt > Prompt Generator > Inference Model is data and Harness is compute
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Almanax has been acquired by @depthfirstlabs!
.@AlmanaxAI is joining @depthfirstlabs! @mmwtsn and I started the company two years ago because we'd grown tired of seeing weekly multi-million-dollar hacks destroying blockchain companies and stealing people's life savings. We believed the industry needed to move from annual security audits and pentests to continuous ones, and that AI would eventually get us there. We were among the first to see the potential of AI in cyber and build new solutions in this space. When we started, most security teams told us our product wouldn't work, they didn’t need more findings, and they didn't trust AI to be good. But then we saw how the commercial tools our clients were using were missing many of the vulnerabilities we were detecting, while producing an absurd number of false positives. We ended up working with some of the largest blockchain companies: Solana, Stellar, Aptos, Privy and Bridge (now part of Stripe), DFNS, Algorand. When people didn't believe, we showed them results: we found issues in Vitalik's code (arguably one of the best software engineers on Earth), ethically disclosed hundreds of vulnerabilities (to Ripple, Coinbase, Fireblocks), and won security competitions against thousands of researchers. As we progressed, we realized that while crypto companies were among the most vulnerable (exploits directly steal money), the problem was widespread beyond blockchain. The rise of vibe coding created an enormous new attack surface and new models and harnesses were detecting vulnerabilities that had gone unnoticed in software packages for decades, some of which power most of today’s internet. The time between CVE public disclosure and first confirmed in-the-wild exploitation has dropped from 2.3 years in 2018 to eight hours today. This and the release of frontier cyber models shook the industry. So we expanded our product support to languages and tech stacks used widely by enterprises. But the scale of what needs to be done requires more than what any one small team can do alone We believe joining forces with depthfirst will significantly accelerate our shared vision to secure the world’s software. depthfirst is already swinging at the same future we set out to build, with the team and the resources to lead the way. Their bet, and now ours, is that the next major security platform will be in product security. As their investor @arshammem put it, every category eventually gets one company whose name becomes synonymous with it: Palo Alto Networks for the network, CrowdStrike for the endpoint, Wiz for the cloud. Product and application security, notwithstanding many attempts, is still left without a crowned victor. We think depthfirst can be that company. Thanks to our great team, investors, and customers who believed in us and shared our vision of the world. Our ambition is now even bigger and we’re excited to build that future with @qasimmith, @andreamichi, Daniele, and the entire @depthfirstlabs team.
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We've partnered with @0G_labs to launch the Apollo accelerator! Demo Day is NOW, come join us: meet.google.com/uut-wdvq-zyv
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I'm excited to share that Cambrian has raised $11.9M to build the financial intelligence layer for the convergence of AI, digital assets, and traditional finance. Our seed round was led by @Polychain and Franklin Templeton @FTDA_US: a convergence itself of a top OG digital assets fund and a $1.7T institutional asset manager of 75+ years. As AI starts to consume more data in minutes than most humans do in lifetimes, finance is evolving to adapt to this reality ⤵️
Big news: we’ve raised $11.9 million to build the world’s financial intelligence layer. @Polychain and Franklin Templeton @FTDA_US share our conviction that the future of finance will be increasingly orchestrated by AI agents. The missing ingredient that separates winning agents from slopbots? Financial intelligence. Agents are beginning to consume human lifetimes' worth of data in minutes. As AI, digital assets, and traditional finance converge, the agentic appetite for data will grow larger – as will the challenge in separating noise from signal. Cambrian specializes strictly in financial data, delivering actionable intelligence designed for this new agentic world. The best financial decisions are predicated on the best intelligence. Join the new financial revolution. Register at cambrian.org
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"Robotics for all requires data from all. Prismax is leading the way in better, heterogenous data." - @theBBFund @theBBFund backs the best founders from the @Stanford blockchain community. An early believer in PrismaX, they helped test Verify Quality before we opened it to the public.
Made with AI
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The teams that show up early to something like this are usually the ones who actually get why it matters. Glad these did. Thank you @theBBFund @ChainGPT_Pad @monad @FabricFND @peaq @PerleLabs @SentientAGI @StanfordSBA @virtuals_io @xmaquina @ZenO4AI
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AEON $8M Pre-Seed Round⚡️ 📑 About: @AEON_Community is a settlement layer for the agentic economy enabling autonomous AI agent transactions. 🤝 Investors: @yzilabs (Lead), @HashKeyGroup, @IDGCapital, @theBBFund, @Oakgrovevc, and @SevenXVentures
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Then I went to Stanford University for an AI for Science conference. Special treat: getting to meet some of the amazing founders in our Apollo accelerator cohort that we are proudly hosting with @StanfordSBA and @theBBFund
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Finance is going through a metamorphosis - I believe today's ongoing changes are part of The Great Convergence. (The entire convergence encompasses all economic activity)
The Rollup
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Excited to share that @icme_labs has been selected for the @0G_labs Apollo Accelerator, backed by @theBBFund and veterans from Stanford's blockchain community @StanfordSBA. 🔥Only 10 teams selected out of hundreds🔥 #ZKML We're building PreFlight: cryptographic guardrails for AI agents. Plain English policies compiled to formal logic used for enforcement; with a succinct ZK proof of every decision. LLM judges don't work. Humans-in-the-loop, no way! Agents that handle anything important need cryptographic guardrails. That's PreFlight. #0gApolloAccelerator
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Wrapped up a strong day at The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets at @cornell_tech. The discussions underscored a clear shift toward verifiable infrastructure for the emerging agent economy. The “AI on Blockchain Rails” panel, moderated by @Gary_Weinstein_, highlighted why privacy and verifiability are becoming foundational requirements. Proud to have @amitchax representing @palliora, where we are building the privacy-enhancing stack spanning ZK, MPC, FHE, and TEEs to enable secure, auditable human–AI coordination. Grateful to the organizers @CTBlockchainNYC, @CUBlockchain, @theBBFund, and @initc3org, and to everyone who contributed to a thoughtful and forward-looking conversation. The next phase of market infrastructure is being built with verifiability at its core.
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Quantum computing is advancing quickly while $BTC remains difficult to upgrade. @swillinger of @theBBFund tells @RemyBlaireNews the fix is "relatively straightforward," but the Bitcoin community will face a governance decision on coins that would need to be migrated, including Satoshi's. "21 million might not be the final number anymore."
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We meant to say “congrats” 😬
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