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SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it. Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment. Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal. The numbers are insane: - Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000 - Cost to make this scan: ~$200 - Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening - File size: smaller than a TikTok The science is wild too: It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth. AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE. The grift opportunity is even wilder: Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums. One person + one phone + one weekend = a business. Open source. Built on PlayCanvas. Free GitHub: github.com/playcanvas

Students -- you get in free. Come for the free food, stay for the liberation of humanity (and the cutting edge of the tech that powers it). Register at the link in the comments.

Excited about the lineup this year -- so much cool building happening. People who have gone know what a different kind of event this is. April 11-12 | Cambridge, MA Early Bird Tickets AND Flash Sale END MARCH 25TH AT 11PM

FLASH SALE -- BUY ONE EARLY BIRD, GET ONE 50% OFF EXPIRES 11PM March 25th! Until Early Bird tickets (33% off full price) expire at 11pm on 3/25, you ALSO get 50% off a second ticket to the 2026 MIT Bitcoin Expo, taking place in Cambridge, MA, the weekend of April 11-12. Grab your tickets ⬇️

One of the leading voices shaping the future of digital money! @neha is joining #MITBitcoinExpo2026 #FreedomforAll 🔥🔥🔥 Director of @mitDCI at @medialab. Board member at Block. Advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Get your tickets 🎟️ now! mitbitcoinexpo.org

For the Bitcoin devs out there 👇 Robert Netzke — Contributor to rust-bitcoin, bip324, kernel-node, and more — is joining #MITBitcoinExpo2026 #FreedomForAll Get your tickets 🎟️ now! mitbitcoinexpo.org

Some people talk about freedom. Others build it 🔥 #MITBitcoinExpo2026 #FreedomforAll Get your tix now! mitbitcoinexpo.org

Most on-chain RWAs were never built to scale. They were built to sell a narrative. Proxy exposure. Dead liquidity. Zero ownership. @plumenetwork is quietly fixing the core problem: native asset tokenization with real liquidity rails. Art, wine, real estate — assets people already understand, now actually ownable and tradable on-chain. $2.5M backed, infrastructure first, hype later. This is what serious RWA bets start to look like.

Imagine funding AI scientists the same way we fund protocols. Crypto in → research out → value compounds. That’s the endgame for autonomous science — and it feels closer than people think. 🎙️ @antonio_f8vc | @bioprotocol

Early crypto wasn’t about tokens — it was about ideas. XRP, ETH, stablecoins… each wave pulled different people in, but Ethereum was the moment many builders realized this wasn’t just a trade, it was a mission. 🎙️ @antonio_f8vc | @bioprotocol

Hot take: the end goal isn’t more jobs, it’s more freedom to create and explore. @0G_labs

on the pod, we explored how decentralized science could reshape medicine Curetopia @endrarediseases is a biotech DAO funding rare disease research through on-chain governance, patient participation, and drug repurposing in months, they’ve raised $1.7M+ and identified promising treatment candidates for ultra-rare diseases this is what “real-world crypto utility” actually looks like full episode 🎙️👇 @antonio_f8vc

What if labs start asking AI agents to run more experiments? 👀 Head of Agentic Science @BioProtocol explains how bio-agents can now generate hypotheses, design experiments, and run them globally — something that straight up wasn’t possible until recently. 🎙️@antonio_f8vc

This part of the convo really hit. Instead of AI agents just farming memes in Discord backrooms, @bioprotocol is training them to think at a PhD-level. Reading papers, building knowledge graphs, and talking to each other for weeks to surface ideas no one’s tried before. This is what AI + crypto done right looks like. 🎙️ w/ @antonio_f8vc

The Head of Agentic Science breaks down how @BioProtocol is building a Y Combinator for science 🧬 Think: funding frontier research through DAOs, on-chain IP, and AI bio-agents that actually accelerate discovery. The goal? Turn science into a scalable, open, crypto-powered engine — and eventually autonomous “science factories.” Why it matters: • Real utility, not just memes • AI agents doing real research • Patients and communities funding cures directly "DeSci might be crypto’s next breakout narrative."-@antonio_f8vc 🎧

$0G has launched to a 4.8b FDV Thanks @cryptonioooo for bringing my attention to this project three months ago during an exclusive interview with @michaelh_0g Their conversation extensively covers the formation of @0g_labs and its aim to create a decentralized AI operating system to counter the societal dangers of centralized AI control 👇

Just voted "Deploy $500k in $UNI Incentives" on "Launching @Uniswap v3 on @Ronin_Network with co-incentives" @BlockchainEdu is in favor of making @Uniswap be the primary DEX on new chains. While the incentive ask is high, Ronin is committing at a 2:1 ratio which we believe makes this a worthwhile initiative snapshot.box/#/s:uniswapgov… #Snapshot

@pkcons9 @linera_io your journey reflects persistence and growth. excited for what’s next in crypto.

My crypto story is really amazing. Joined crypto in 2017 Went through tons of tough times . Matured enough in 2020. Well known risk in 2021. @linera_io Supporting many projects Found linera too Forget past Think future We are right place IFYYK FOMO NOT GOOD HODL GOOD Learned lesson Crypto is happy place if you know how to deal with it.