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There's a lot of talk about the ways in which crypto can enable something in AI. At TOKEN2049, Diogo Mónica explained that we are actually seeing many use cases where it is the other way around— AI is enabling something in crypto (as is the case with Haun portfolio team Chaos Labs).

There's a lot of talk about the ways in which crypto can enable something in AI. At TOKEN2049, Diogo Mónica explained that we are actually seeing many use cases where it is the other way around— AI is enabling something in crypto (as is the case with Haun portfolio team Chaos Labs).

We’ve been supporters of Solana since the launch of Haun Ventures. This year, when speaking to teams building on Solana—whether building a social app, a DePIN protocol, or a DeFi protocol—one common infrastructure provider always came up:?Helius. Today, we're proud to announce we're leading a $21.75M round of financing in Helius. We’re excited to support the Helius team in their mission to accelerate developer adoption of crypto. More from breck stodghill here: https://lnkd.in/g4yDNDyN

Two years ago, breck stodghill wrote that Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs)—a powerful method of cryptography—would have far reaching applications as infrastructure for the new internet. Today's Aleo (Haun portfolio project) launch puts us farther down the path toward a web that better preserves our data privacy. Read more about ZKPs here ?? https://lnkd.in/gG6beVpy

Diogo Mónica spoke to Axios about transitioning from crypto founder to crypto VC. Some highlights: ?? It's been amazing to talk to founders and say: "Hey, I know what you are suffering through. I know what it looks like every two years to have 80% of your revenue go away like clockwork." ?? Building a company in crypto is being a founder in hard mode. It's already insane, you know, "chewing glass and staring into abyss." But it's a harder version of the abyss, a darker version of the abyss. ?? I've been doing [deals] for a long time. Personally, I have over 150 angel investments. I feel like I was playing mini golf, but now I'm playing golf. Technically, the mechanics are the same: There's a ball and a club, but it's a very different sport. More here ?? : https://lnkd.in/gE4VEgVG

Today we announced that we're backing Bridge, an entirely new payments platform, built with stablecoins, to simplify global money movement. Payments has long been a promised use case for blockchains. Stablecoins, combined with cheap and fast blockchains, are fulfilling this promise and growing quickly. Stablecoins especially shine for international payments, where the speed and cost benefits vs. fiat transfers can be significant. However, stablecoins remain difficult to use for most businesses because operating across fiat and multiple blockchains creates complexity that make it difficult for businesses to deeply integrate and take advantage of this technology. You can read more about how Bridge abstracts away this complexity with easy to use APIs that businesses like SpaceX, Bitso, and DolarApp are already using in the Fortune story below. https://lnkd.in/gDFzqD7i

Today The Information covered the large and growing network of founders building in the crypto economy who once worked at Coinbase. We're proud of our role in this ecosystem (most of us are alumni!) and are happy to see many of our portfolio teams highlighted in this piece including: Agora, Farcaster, Neynar, Plume Network, and ZORA. The article also featured our very own breck stodghill, himself an early engineer at Coinbase: "There’s a culture of going to Coinbase, getting stuff done at scale, concluding your tour of duty and moving on to do your own thing." Read more here ??

We're leading the $55 million Series A in Chaos Labs an automated economic security system for crypto protocols utilizing state-of-the-art monitoring and simulations.?We believe that the future of Onchain Finance is real-time, and that Chaos Labs, led by Omer Goldberg, is uniquely positioned to realize this vision. Full announcement by Diogo Mónica here: https://lnkd.in/d2krXYUy

Weekend listening ?? — Erik Torenberg catches up with Diogo Mónica in a Turpentine podcast episode about where crypto has been and where the industry is going. From institutional adoption to the promise of real world assets to where the most exciting use cases of the future may come from, they cover a lot of ground for the crypto curious. https://lnkd.in/gW3Ng-ny

Crypto has emerged as an issue millions of Americans and entrepreneurs care about this election cycle. Diogo Mónica stopped by Bloomberg News this morning to talk about what the industry is looking for from the next administration on the eve of the first presidential debate. https://lnkd.in/gbkXcJWm