Thanks so much Adam Miller and Sachin Shah 🙏 really enjoyed the chat

The most important entrepreneurial contribution in a generation. Scott, your impact goes so far beyond building one of the world’s best companies. An entire ecosystem stands on your shoulders; you’ve bent the trajectory of an entire continent in an innovative direction. 🙏

Crypto is back. @Stripe will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and automatically convert to fiat. Join the waitlist stripe.com/use-cases/cryp… and watch the demo (h/t @Solana) from Sessions.

“Everybody wants an abundant future, but nobody wants to dig no heavy-ass rocks.”

Mining is a $2 trillion industry. It's eons older than prostitution & may be the last industry standing post-AGI. But new discoveries are anemic and VC doesn't touch it.

Enter EARTH AI 🪨

Happy halvening $BTC!

I wrote an oped in Financial Times.

My goal isn't to defend or to diminish memecoins.

It’s to point out the backward incentives of a regulatory regime in the US that lets only memecoins thrive — while companies and tokens with more productive uses face hurdles.

ft.com/content/1ceaa1…

We’re proud to introduce $Z - the future of decentralized trading.

$Z powers the governance and protocol growth of Zeta Markets, Solana's fastest perpetuals exchange, which has facilitated +$4B in trading volume serving 71.6k monthly active users.

Coming soon. 🧵

This is surprisingly true.

We have had copycats over the years. Including some that straight up copy/pasted designs, web copy and more (one even had an errant 'Qwilr' on their pricing page 😂)

Aaaaand... None of them made it. None of them matter.

I couldn’t be more impressed by the way Tristan and the Zeta Markets | v2 Live 🔥 team have handled themselves with integrity, hard work and persistence since inception and through the cycle. $1bn volume is just the start 🚀

Despite the doom and gloom headlines, the Australian startup ecosystem is flourishing. The number of startups valued at $100m+ has DOUBLED since the last time we produced this chart in '21.

🔗: airtree.vc/open-source-vc…

My conversation w Kell Reilly.

Ep #160 is now live!

- Teacher DNA in his family
- Only analyst remaining at Merrill Lynch during '08 GFC
- Exactly what metrics make a successful business
- Refreshing way to unpack TAM
- Why customer service sucks!

curiositycenter.xyz/the-high-flyer…

Check out this example of what great fundraising materials look like (via ProcurePro) and a template for you to use when you prepare your own. 🤓

We're incredibly happy to announce our $4.5M seed round!

blog.sablier.com/sablier-labs-r…

Congratulations to the #ethereum developers on another seamless upgrade. Great to see Dencun live and the immediate cost benefits flowing through for L2s. $ETH 🦇🔊 theblock.co/post/282236/et…

Beware the zombie VCs 🧟‍♀️ask how many net new investments has a VC made in the last 12 months

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We discovered surface high-grade mineralisation at Sandover. A rarity in todays time!

This is akin to finding a new civilization in the heart of the jungle - we commonly think that these have all been found and are extinct.

Until you find one. In our case it’s the better

Check out our fresh new kicks Airtree