So much cool stuff is getting built on here 🤘

💼 Proof of Work: How We Show Up for Founders As a crypto VC for 10+ years, we’ve been lucky to work with 200+ of the best & brightest founders in the world at Pantera Capital. But how do we earn our opportunity for the next 10 years? A simple answer: Show Your Work.

Summer is over. Time for VCs to get back to work (some of us never stopped)

The ninth edition of my funding newsletter is out! 🎉 Big thanks to Jed Breed, rajiv, Tom Schmidt ＞|＜, Erick Zhang, Jack Platts and Matt Stephenson for their insights on crypto-AI startups! theblock.co/post/312949/th…

.@starknet Bolt (v13.2) live. 400 tps, 2sec conf time. Proud to be part of amazing team StarkWare 🐺🐱, at the frontier of integrity.

2-second txs are here 🔥 Parallel Execution and Block Packing are now live on Starknet mainnet! With higher TPS capacity, more frequent blocks and faster tx confirmation time, Starknet is now smoother than ever. starknet.io/blog/bolt-vers…

Saying Vitalik hates DeFi is about as weird as saying he hates Ethereum. reddit.com/r/ethereum/s/K…

It’s been three years of building together on Arbitrum. Today, we bring you Stylus! Designed to drive innovation and foster collaboration across blockchains. Stylus is now on mainnet. Open new doors. Shape what's ahead. Do More. With Stylus.

Yesterday there were ~30,000 developers with the skillset to build an Arbitrum app. Today there are ~15 million. Hello Stylus. Hello Rust/C/C++ devs. Welcome to Arbitrum 🙌

Large Language Model Agents is the next frontier. Really excited to announce our Berkeley course on LLM Agents, also available for anyone to join as a MOOC, starting Sep 9 (Mon) 3pm PT! 📢 Sign up & join us: llmagents-learning.org

"There's no such thing as DePin" - the second greatest Jon Charb post in the history of substack, locked by a moderator after 12,000 comments

not the bear signal you think it is both professors are starting crypto startups

Breakpoint debate: This house believes that DePIN is overhyped and capital inefficient. Speaking FOR: Matt Stephenson of Pantera Capital Speaking AGAINST: abhay 🎈 of Helium.

The chili crab is not the only 🌶️ thing in Singapore. LFG, Matt Stephenson.

We are excited to announce the release of our whitepaper, OML: Unleashing the Era of AI Entrepreneurship. There are two paradigms of AI model deployment today: open and closed. Open models offer community-driven innovation and a resistance to centralized AI companies taking

Less than a week before abhay 🎈 and I square off about whether DePin is overhyped 🍿