🎧 Happening TODAY! 🌍🔥 DeFam, don’t miss this, Kartik of Demether & Mike Chan from Deep Ventures go live to unpack global crypto narratives and what’s next for Web3 🚀 🗓️ 24 June | ⏰ 12 PM UTC 🎙️ Kartik Swaminathan | Demether & Mike Chan | Deep Ventures 🤘 🔗 x.com/i/spaces/1nAJE… 📡 Set your

Our founder Auryn is joining a panel on The State of Crypto Privacy, July 1 @ 1PM ET. Join us! Topics: 🔹Txn & data privacy 🔹Emerging tools & use cases 🔹What’s next for crypto privacy With: • Paul Brigner 🛡️ (Zcash 🛡️ Electric Coin Co.) • Olii (Panther Protocol)

The State of Crypto Privacy is happening tomorrow at 1PM ET! Join Paul Brigner 🛡️ from Zcash 🛡️, Olii from Panther Protocol, Auryn from Enclave ઇઉ and me for a chat about how crypto is changing the privacy world! Register here: lu.ma/93vuw7qm See you

Missed The State of Crypto Privacy panel? Here's a quick recap and link to the video! Panelists included: - Paul Brigner 🛡️ of Zcash 🛡️ / Electric Coin Co. - Olii of Panther Protocol - Auryn of Enclave ઇઉ We discussed: - The recent data leak of 16B records and how

Happy Independence Day! Here are the 5 most interesting crypto fundraises (according to me) for the week ending 7/4/25: 1) The Open Platform (TOP) Telegram app developer The Open Platform (The Open Platform) raised $28.5M in a Series A led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from

What makes a crypto VC actually useful to founders? We sat down with Mike Chan | Deep Ventures 🤘 of Deep Ventures to talk about founder empathy, raising in the bear, and how capital allocation is evolving in Web3. 🎧 Listen Here: buff.ly/mjZB9bG

Zcash is realizing the vision of truly private, peer-to-peer digital cash, closer to what many believe Satoshi imagined. Using zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash keeps transaction details fully encrypted, while still ensuring the network follows all the same core rules (no double

Most data-driven applications rely on collecting and warehousing massive amounts of data, creating a dangerous honeypot waiting to be breached. Auryn ’s vision with Enclave ઇઉ flips this model: "Our goal is to stop aggregating raw data and start producing

“Privacy isn’t about hiding, it's about the freedom to choose what you share.” Panther Protocol started with a bold vision: private digital cash as a true bearer instrument. But as the crypto privacy space was under siege by regulators, Olii and the Panther team realized

Had an awesome time at the crypto meetup I hosted in Zurich last night! 🇨🇭 It was great to connect with new people, meet people IRL I've had calls with in the past, and hang with Deep Ventures portfolio company OrdinalsBot founder Bruffstar! Huge thanks to everyone who

Super excited to back the Yanez.ai team and support their Bittensor Subnet 54, Yanez MIID! Their integration of Bittensor to generate synthetic ID datasets is a breakthrough in how financial crime prevention apps are built. And I believe this decentralized approach can and

Happy Friday! Here are the 5 most interesting crypto fundraises for the week ending 8/1/25. 1) Stable L1 stablecoin blockchain Stable raised $28M in a Seed round led by Bitfinex, Hack VC, and USDT0, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Castle Island Ventures, and

Grit is the #1 characteristic of successful founders. Being mission-driven is probably #2. Ramon | Kinto ⛩️ 💹🧲, VictorSanchez and the Kinto team have faced multiple instances of bad luck: 1) Getting DDoSd on their TGE day 2) The $K token being the only one hacked when a

I don't know about you, but I can already sense the regulatory clarity based on the products and solutions that are being offered to the US market. Mike Chan | Deep Ventures 🤘 of Deep Ventures and I discussed Project Crypto and some of the updates coming from Coinbase. Plus the latest

How do you build crypto privacy products in a world where regulators are cracking down? The arrest of Tornado Cash’s founders was a turning point for privacy in crypto. Panther Protocol had to rethink its approach and fast, which led to their shift to a hybrid compliance

Deep Ventures invests early. Sometimes ridiculously early. Sometimes when the startup is just a twinkle in the founder's eye. We may tell founders that their idea is not a good fit for us. Or that we don't see enough founder-market fit. Or that we don't have enough conviction.

Happy Friday! Here are the 5 most interesting crypto fundraises for the week ending 8/15/25: 1) USD AI GPU-backed stablecoin lending protocol USD.AI | Public Launch is Live raised $13.4M in a Series A round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Dragonfly Capital, Arbitrum

A crypto project hit a $6B valuation. Six months later the founder walked away. In this week’s episode with Mike Chan | Deep Ventures 🤘 from Deep Ventures we broke down what happened with this project, why many keep getting burned, and how incentives drive behavior in web3. We also covered

We just published the Deep Ventures August newsletter! We highlight: - A deep dive into why we invested in Yanez.ai - Syndicate portco updates on Exa Protocol, Demether, and Bitflow - The latest industry update (all about stables and DATs) - Mik and Mike

I'll be speaking at the Global Blockchain Congress The Global Blockchain Congress in Dubai next week! Register here: bit.ly/15th-GBC Swing by and say hello if you're around!