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One step close to our mission of democratizing access to private markets and giving profit to the people. Lets go fam 🚀🌕💙

@withprotegeai @a16z @BobbySamuels @DatavantHQ huge congrats to the team! so stoked to watch your mission come to life

Today, we are thrilled to announce that @withprotegeai has raised a new $30M funding round led by @a16z. When @BobbySamuels and former @DatavantHQ co-founder and CEO Travis May first started Protege in 2024, we saw three bottlenecks to AI’s progress — compute, models, and data. Compute has scaled dramatically, models continue to improve, but access to the right data remains the hardest part. That’s why Protege exists: to be the infrastructure for real-world data in AI development. In the few months since our last round of funding, we’ve felt the urgent demand pull across industries, domains, and modalities. We are rapidly expanding to meet those needs. When AI builders come to Protege, they’re looking for real-world data: the most authentic signal of how people and systems actually behave. This is not synthetic data created by AI nor manufactured data created to simulate human behavior. Across every stage of the AI development lifecycle — from pre-training to post-training to fine-tuning to evaluation — AI builders need this data. They’re looking across modalities and industries: healthcare, video, audio, motion capture, gaming, manufacturing, life sciences, real estate, finance, education, and many more. Foundational, multi-modal model-builders (including the majority of the Magnificent Seven) now work with us across multiple domains along with dozens of other model builders. Thanks to @daisydwolf and the rest of the a16z team for joining us on this journey as well as our existing investors also participating in this round — @nbt at @footworkvc, @saarsaar at @CRV, @BloombergBeta, @flexcapital, Shaper Capital, and others. Lastly, a huge thank you to the @withprotegeai team for making this all possible. More details in 🧵! #AIDevelopment #DataInfrastructure #a16z #StartupFunding #Protege

@Shenanigrahams i like posts like this 🙂

Is everything dying, the market collapsing? I don't think so. Here's some positive things to keep your heart beating 👇

@RepublicCrypto @Incentiv_net Stacked lineup

🔥 Exclusive Firechat with @Incentiv_net. They’re building a new kind of value layer for crypto. 🗨️Think: ⚡ Proof-of-Work reimagined 💸 Native liquidity rails 🔧 Real tools for builders Tune in as Arben, Patrick & Shine join Maya for an unfiltered conversation. 🎙️Firechat drops in 2 days. 🎙️

@jstrry thanks! 9 years in the making

@0xbryan_ Huge!

Today we are launching a new vertical at the intersection of tokenization, private assets, and global retail access, including the US of A. 🇺🇸

@WSJ 🚀🚀🚀

Exclusive: Investment platform Republic plans to use blockchain technology to sell investors exposure to SpaceX, another effort in an arms race to give regular traders access to hot startups on.wsj.com/44ywWHe

@Shenanigrahams This duality is the bane of my existence

Absolutely wild how much crypto looks like an overt scam while simultaneously becoming the absolute future of digital value and capital transmission

We have finally truly democratized access to institutional grade private equity for EVERYONE.

@MayaAloy Love this! Lots of potential on the horizon 🔥

Everyone has been saying that the vibes were low at ETHDenver ‘25. I had a completely different experience. I left Denver more excited than ever. Here are my top takeaways:

Crypto is in a weird place right now. So I decided to write something to cover some of the more large scale factors that are affecting our rapidly maturing industry from a US macro and global perspective - check it out, it should be a quick read! republiccrypto.substack.com/p/us-macro-geo…

@Shenanigrahams It was one for the culture 💯

Kendrick’s half-time show was fantastic. Black America is America, the culture should be a source of pride for all of us Serena’s dance was lit Right-wing media is out for blood on this but the performance was 🤌🏼

@Shenanigrahams regulatory clarity. also for Ethereum to figure itself out

What does this market need in order to unfuck itself? Gimme the takes 👇

@bryan_johnson @RepublicCrypto is who you want to be speaking to, in order to design a sustainable token economy.

Who’s the best mind in tokenomics? We’re designing rewards for the Don’t Die ecosystem—earn for hitting health markers, buying DD-approved products, dining at DD-certified restaurants, and more.

@caitlinxyz We are at @joinrepublic and @RepublicCrypto 🙋🏽‍♂️ All with full legal compliance combined with web3 native thinking

- the founder of robinhood is tweeting about tokenizing private company stock - apollo is launching a tokenized private credit fund on solana - jamie dimon is saying tokens that do something are good tradfi instruments are going onchain. who all is working on this?

@Shenanigrahams I can’t.

The fourth one down freakin' broke me

@Shenanigrahams @laoganpapi @RepublicCrypto

@laoganpapi @0xbryan_ @RepublicCrypto And yet, we shall remain so, so close. Let’s f’in tea!

@Shenanigrahams has been like a brother to me and @0xbryan_, turning @RepublicCrypto into what it is today. Graham, it’s been some of the most tumultuous, hair-greying rides of my life and I’d do it again with you every time. To more years of 🍶🍵 and people watching

Congrats on the launch @moonraygame 🚀 maybe its time for me to finally get a PS5..

@moonraygame @RepublicCrypto this might be the thing that makes me buy a PS5

We’re grateful to @RepublicCrypto for their early support, helping us navigate the complexities of the Web3 landscape and master the art of building sustainable tokenomics. Their guidance has been invaluable in shaping the foundation of the Moonray Universe.

Friendly reminder how much value is stored on the top 5 chains. #4k