i'll be spending the next months exploring different areas to build an opportunity space and ultimately a programme around. you can find the primary focus of my explorations at aria.org.uk/emerging-areas.

The next wave of blockchain infrastructure will look very different — purpose-built for emerging applications in AI, Payments, Gaming, & more. In our latest piece, Thomas Crow dives into how future blockchains must shift the emphasis of core properties to unlock the next wave

Been thinking a lot of about the future of blockchain infrastructure, and how we should think about tailoring the infrastructure to new application areas. thread and article below ↓

the starting point is that blockchains as a technology have a whole load of desirable properties - these properties are inherent to the technology and applicable to a wide range of industries

Our AI agent distributed $1M to 2,000+ open-source devs. It worked — until it didn’t... Incentives drifted. Shallow work crept in. So we paused. Listened. Learned. Now we’re evolving it. Same tech, new mission: fund deep, meaningful OSS. Here’s how: blog.onlydust.com/we-gave-1m-to-…

Did a big (internal) retrospective on the token market, looking at the whole cycle - successful tokens that launched after 2021. Some interesting insights so sharing more broadly. Lots of charts in this thread.

Highly simple Highly efficient Highly usable Hyli

We've reached a major milestone in fully decentralized training: for the first time, we've demonstrated that a large language model can be split and trained across consumer devices connected over the internet - with no loss in speed or performance.

Fabric Summit 2025 heating up with Sir Jeremy Hunt MP & Richard.near Muirhead.eth fireside char, and a futurist debate with Emad, founder of Intelligent Internet & Stability AI; Web3 researcher and early Bitcoin contributor Mike Hearn; and Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈), co-founder of NEAR Protocol, tuning in from

The Hyli testnet is live. Welcome to the proof playground! 🧵

Fantasy is coming to Base Fantasy Top is officially migrating to Base, teaming up with the most active Layer 2 to become the leading social experience in the ecosystem. The bridge opens tomorrow (7/15) at 1PM UTC. Stay tuned! Please note: the game will enter maintenance mode

Why is fantasy moving to base? With the Base migration complete, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on why we made this move. A year and a half ago, we made a bet: launch Fantasy on a brand-new, hyped L2 called Blast. At the time, it made sense. Pacman had a killer track

I gotta give it up to Merkl as well. That project came out of the blue for me and now I see every chain with DeFi directing people to their platform to look for yield incentives.

In 2009, Bitcoin launched with no VCs, no listings, no market makers. Today your token is your exit and liquidity is survival. We wrote the guide founders need to compete in today’s token markets. Part 1: How we got here 👇

Everyone obsesses over launch hype. Few prepare for what really matters after: liquidity. In Part 1 of this 3-part series, lata unpacks the critical role of market makers and why designing a liquid market isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s the product. Check it out 👇

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The academic research process is broken. From slow peer review, to biased funding, and a high barrier to entry. What is DeSci, what is it doing to fix research, and what has it achieved so far? Read more 👇 medium.com/fabric-venture…

We’re excited to announce a new strategic funding round for Loop Crypto led by Fabric Ventures & VanEck with additional first-time investment from mert | helius.dev (Helius) & Maximillian Jungreis || jungreis.eth (Plug and Play) and with continued support from a16z crypto, Archetype, a_capital, & others.

The next robotics breakthrough won’t come from a single lab. It will come from a network of researchers, builders, and teleoperators working together. Welcome to BitRobot: The World’s Open Robotics Lab. Explore our new website ↓