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We’re excited to announce our newest Beacon Partner, @KAPGamesGG 🤝 KAP Games is reshaping the gaming landscape with three core pillars: Publishing, Studio, and Distribution—designed to empower developers and connect players to high-quality games. Publishing: Connecting games to massive audiences via aggregated go-to-market providers, comprehensive Web3 SDK tooling, and grant opportunities. KAP ensures indie studios have the resources and support to launch and scale successfully. Studio: Building award-winning, highly social midcore games that leverage digital ownership and community-driven design. Players can experience KAP’s major hit, Captain & Company, on PC, mobile, or browser. Distribution: Bringing players into games fast with cross-platform tools, social jackpot events, partner staking rewards, and simple email-based wallets, ensuring accessibility and engagement. By leveraging Thirdwave Wallet Intelligence, KAP Games is taking their platform to the next level. Together, we’re optimizing quest campaign performance, analyzing wallet data to better understand players, and enhancing growth through tailored onchain insights.

We're excited to announce our oversubscribed $75M Portal Ventures Fund 2. Portal exclusively leads crypto pre-seeds with the first check in. Since 2022, we've backed numerous category creators as day-one supporters. Across our two funds we’ve raised $115M. We focus on putting the founder first. We don’t do much marketing. Today we’re launching Fund 2, here’s what you need to know: 1. We focus on one thing and do it well — leading the pre-seed / first institutional round of category creating crypto businesses and protocols. 2. Thesis-driven: we invest only where we've done the homework. Our unique insights make us valuable thought partners to our founders, and at times extensions of the founding team. 3. Nothing is too early: we've backed companies without a whitepaper / deck. We underwrite the founder and sector. We roll up our sleeves to help navigate PMF and open our networks to unlock opportunities. 4. Back one per category: we make high-conviction bets. It’s the only way to be all-in with our founders. 5. "Who you see is who you get": both of us (@evanbfish and @dotcuriouscat) run full stack, from research and sourcing to investment decisions and post-investment support. Building a company is highly personal experience. We believe in a direct and personal approach to working together. To learn more about our portfolio and thesis, visit our website. Both @evanbfish and @dotcuriouscat's DM are open. If you’re building a category creating protocol, message us.

1/ Thrilled to announce that Hivemind is co-leading a $20M Series A Funding Round for @spaceandtime, a verifiable compute layer for AI x Blockchain, alongside @hiFramework, @FactionVC, and @Arrington_Cap 🚀 Blockchain technology is redefining how we establish trust in data, driving a growing demand for trustless, verifiable data processing. Yet, traditional data solutions remain largely inaccessible on-chain, stunting the development of advanced dApps and highlighting the urgent need for seamless integration between on- and off-chain data. Space and Time (SxT) is addressing this challenge head-on, rapidly emerging as a market leader with a number of industry defining innovations already under it’s belt. At the heart of what SxT’s is building is its Proof of SQL mechanism, a proprietary zero-knowledge proof that ensures all computations within the ecosystem are tamperproof and verifiable at scale. This technology not only fortifies the security of blockchain data but also enables smart contracts and AI agents to interact with on- and off-chain data confidently. SxT has also introduced a cutting-edge blockchain indexer, aiming to provide verifiable data across multiple chains, including Ethereum, ZKsync, and Polygon. And finally, their AI-powered frontend, Space and Time Studio, empowers even non-developers to leverage blockchain data through natural language prompts, making complex data processing accessible to a broader audience. And yet, this is just the beginning. As SxT continues to innovate, it’s clear that the intersection of AI and blockchain is more than just an enhancement to the developer experience—it’s a fundamental shift towards a “verify everything” future. By empowering true community ownership and fostering a more equitable economic landscape, we believe SxT is paving the way for a new era of decentralized applications that is both secure and user-friendly. We’re excited to support SxT as they continue to redefine what’s possible in blockchain data processing and help bring their “verify everything” future to life. 💫