Min Teo

@lindaxie @willwarren Congrats Linda! Amazing news and thrilled for you!

Personal news: my husband @willwarren and I are expecting a baby girl this winter and we couldn't be more excited! 😊

@MichaelPinto_ @7WeeksCoffee This is awesome and inspiring. Congrats Michael!

I'm joining @7WeeksCoffee as COO and equity partner to lead operations and growth efforts. Over 6 years, I've led or co-led $125M+ into venture capital investments. Hundreds of founder conversations. What I realized is that the most needed thing in business right now isn't more capital. It's operators willing to put their skills behind something that actually matters. I started my career at @InvescoUS working on AI, virtual assistants, and fintech — then moved on to their $4.5B VC/PE fund of funds, deploying capital across some of the best venture funds and startups in the world. Generational franchises. Emerging managers. E-commerce, fintech, healthcare, AI, and crypto. From there I went deeper into the stack. I joined Frictionless Capital as a Senior Associate, then Principal, and spent nearly two years sourcing and investing in founders building category-defining companies across AI, high-throughput, trading, and infrastructure. And across every single seat, the lesson was the same: the best founders are the ones with a singular, almost dogmatic conviction about the world they're building. I saw that in @AntonKrecic the first time we met in 2022. He had one idea: fund every PRC in America through his company. Today, Seven Weeks Coffee has served hundreds of thousands of customers, donated $1.8M to PRCs across all 50 states, and helped save nearly 18,000 lives. Growing up, I watched my dad @mattpinto build @AscensionPress into the leader in Catholic publishing. Over 23 years, he's produced The Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz — the #1 religion podcast in the world, now past 1 billion downloads. Along the way, he's nurtured the faith of tens of millions of Catholics, popularized the Theology of the Body, led initiatives around The Passion of Christ, created the Chosen Confirmation program and so much more. What he taught me was that faith and business aren't in tension. Built right, they compound each other. I've had a front-row seat to what world-class operators and investors look like. Now it's time to build. sevenweekscoffee.com

@BillHughesDC @RoboStrategy Congrats Bill! 🔥 Great match

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined @RoboStrategy Advisors to handle legal and policy. I’m taking this on because embodied AI and humanoid robotics are arriving faster than the law is ready for — and the legal and policy questions are remarkably wide-ranging: • National security and trade — export controls, CFIUS, and supply-chain rules increasingly govern who can build and deploy these systems. • Liability and insurance — how tort law assigns responsibility when an autonomous machine acts in the physical world. What consumer protections we need to introduce. • Safety and standards — the standards-setting work (NIST and beyond) that will shape both safety and global competitiveness. • Data and privacy — what it means to have capable machines operating in homes, workplaces, and other human environments. • Labor and workforce — the genuinely hard questions about how this technology interacts with work. • Federalism — a growing patchwork of state approaches and the open question of federal preemption. • And running through all of it, the US–China competition that frames so much of the current debate. Getting to work across that entire range is the kind of substantive legal work I’ve always wanted to do — but the work ahead is as much about engagement as analysis. I want to help bring the best minds in robotics to the table and make sure their insight actually reaches the people writing the rules: on Capitol Hill, in state capitals, across the federal agencies, and with policy counterparts around the world. My aim is to approach the opportunities and the concerns the same way — soberly and with clear eyes. Not hype, not alarm, but policymaking grounded in how these systems really work, and an honest accounting of what they can and can’t yet do, and how policy has to evolve to embrace this future. Thank you to @Rewkang @WarcMeinstein for the opportunity and the trust. I’m grateful to be joining such a strong team, I expect to learn an enormous amount from them, and I’m excited to help build something that can help define this emerging field. I’ll be writing more on these questions and others in the months ahead — I’d welcome comparing notes with others working at the intersection of technology, law, and policy. LFG

.@ethereumJoseph told us not to call it the Second Foundation but also told us SharpLink, BitMine, and ConsenSys are becoming Ethereum's "decentralized commercialization engines" sooooo Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:06 Saylor Sells BTC & Market Panic 05:07 STRC Death Spiral & DAT Risks 07:07 Ethereum Foundation Exodus & CROPS 13:04 The "Not Second Foundation" Debate 17:58 Quantum Q-Day: 50% by 2032 23:47 Is All of DeFi Unsafe? 31:11 ZK Composability & Bridge-Free Architecture 34:19 Security Deployment Lag & AI Arms Race 40:18 Anti-Fragility & Formal Verification 47:36 Zama USDC Freeze & Privacy vs Courts 50:33 CFTC Perps Approval & Hyperliquid at $75 55:53 Hyperliquid's Distribution Flywheel 01:00:46 Joe Lubin's Ethereum Bull Case 🔥Stay updated with all the latest hot takes by following and subscribing to @_ChoppingBlock and @unchained_pod! 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/hf_6Ge1m-OU 🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/3wiIOyy 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/3w9HQ7J 🎙 Podcast Home: choppingblock.xyz

Amidst the market meltdown, we brought @ethereumJoseph on to defend ETH. We talked Saylor's folly, death spirals, quantum threats, AI exploits, and Hyperliquid eating the world. Here's his take on why it's not over for Ethereum yet ⤵️

AI has impacted everything, from how we source to how our judgment compounds, and especially how a small team covers the surface area of a larger one. We proactively built tools to only get stronger as the AI frontier advances. Read more here: etherealvc.substack.com/p/how-ethereal…

Every quarter, we step back to stress-test our conviction against what's actually measurable onchain. Here's our data report on the digital asset landscape from earlier this year, and where we think founders should be building: etherealvc.substack.com/p/report-the-m…

Look no further for a real world privacy use case

Darkbloom just completed a major network upgrade! BIG UPDATE: We’re moving from Research Preview to Public Alpha. In the last month: - 1000s of provider signups, 250 live providers at peak - 600M+ tokens served With this upgrade, performance is up 30–200% across key metrics like TTFT, TPS, and total tokens served. The goal is simple: private, low-cost inference, powered by idle Macs. We’re starting with Gemma 4 and GPT-OSS, then slowly ramping up to larger models as we load test and scale over the next 2 weeks. Providers: go to darkbloom [dot] dev, scroll to down, and run the install command. Thank you to everyone who has been running nodes, giving feedback, and helping us build this network. Waking up the world’s sleeping compute!

Crypto privacy might become one of the BIGGEST trades of this cycle. Institutions want to move trillions onchain. They literally can't do it on fully transparent blockchains. Imagine your bank's entire balance sheet visible to the whole world. Not happening. That's why privacy infrastructure like ZK tech, Aztec, and Zcash are suddenly catching fire again. FT @_MinTeo @BitcoinJesusETH Tune in to know more ⏱ TIME POINTS ⏱ 00:00 – Intro 01:17 – Min Teo’s Crypto Journey 05:36 – Why Ethereal VC Is Winning 10:00 – Top Crypto Sectors for 2026 11:44 – Privacy: Crypto’s Next Big Trend? 15:28 – Sponsor: Cape 16:13 – Sponsor: Nexo 16:51 – Aztec & Private Blockchains 19:15 – Where Privacy Value Accrues 22:30 – Why Institutions Need Privacy 25:00 – AI Agents & Crypto Payments 28:50 – Cross-Chain Investing Explained 30:43 – Sponsor: Pharos 31:26 – Regulation & Crypto Adoption 35:40 – How Top VCs Pick Winners 37:43 – Final Thoughts & Outro

Programmable intelligence needs programmable institutions. @sreeramkannan on the AI x crypto intersection: "AI is just programmable intelligence. If you have programmable intelligence, you can't work with soft, squishy, legal, slow regulated institutions." "We believe that this intersection — that programmable intelligence needs programmable institutions, smart contracts, and the ability to engage in contracts, own property — all of these things are really powerful."

April was an important stress test for how we think about security in DeFi. We believe DeFi’s application layer has matured faster than its control plane, and share our perspectives and recommendations on the topic here: etherealvc.substack.com/p/defi-doesnt-…

We're happy to present our 2026 outlook. This year is already taking shape, and the opportunity space for founders is even wider than anticipated. If you're building in any of these areas, we would love to talk to you. etherealvc.substack.com/p/the-opportun…

@ConejoCapital @bees_neeth @Obstropolos @etherealvc Thank you Bunny. You’ve been a real one!

i’ve had the luck to work with @_MinTeo, @bees_neeth, & @Obstropolos at @etherealvc through several years & ventures many of the world’s most sharp crypto VCs are quite secretive & have quietly driven the industry forward glad they are getting the visibility they deserve!

@sabraham @etherealvc The pleasure has been ours Sunil!

@_MinTeo and the rest of the @etherealvc are awesome. Great to see them getting the coverage and recognition they deserve

Building @etherealvc with this dream team (@ethereumJoseph @sean_sacha @bees_neeth @obstropolos @christian_stlou @GNSPS) and our community of exceptional founders has been the biggest privilege of my life. We're doubling down on crypto and the evolution of money and value onto blockchains, during the most exciting transition of the internet. h/t to @jeffjohnroberts for the feature and happy star wars day!

@ekang426 the best! Happy birthday Erica!

Looking back on how I have lived the year on my birthday, I can confidently say I had a productive and blissful year. I raised one baby and gave birth to another, while shipping two conferences and countless events, and moved countries. We are still building a solid foundation for a happy and stable family, and the upcoming year should be challenging but so exciting. I am so grateful for receiving so much love from my family, more than I could ever wish for. One year older, I wish to become wiser, smarter, more loving, more generous. Special thanks to @ilblackdragon for making my birthday so sweet, being the sweetest husband and papa🫶🏻

@guywuolletjr @tryPortola is cooking

who are the strongest folks in crypto lending against receivables onchain or building with tokenized receivables?

Trendsetters $CHIP

We are excited to announce we are joining the Nvidia Inception Program! As we scale our compute and security capabilities in orbit, the #NVIDIAInception program will help to accelerate development of our infrastructure. Ad astra! 🚀