Archetype

Nava is transforming agents from unpredictable intermediaries into trustworthy collaborators. Working with AI agents still feels like working with contractors: you don’t know them too well, they need context, and their output quality varies. So to set them up for success, and protect yourself, you keep your requests specific and their access limited. You don’t bring on a contractor for design work and then give them your books, your passwords, and a corporate credit card. But that’s the line we’re flirting with when it comes to agents. As AI works its way into every corner of the internet, we must build safeguards and controls into the agents we’re entrusting with our money and our digital lives. But we need to ensure we’re counterbalancing them without nerfing the emergent properties that make them so powerful. And blockchains offer a perfect setting to do just that. Combining the strengths of AI and crypto, Nava is building a platform that brings much needed predictability, safety, and intent-to-settlement accountability to AI. Instead of constricting an agent’s abilities, Nava introduces a set of powerful controls, enabling users to define specific boundaries around execution, set up guardrails and backstops, and verify the lifecycle of their agents’ actions every step of the way. We’re incredibly excited to colead Nava’s $8.3M Seed round and work alongside them as they make AI more trustworthy, blockchains more powerful, and the entire agentic economy far more valuable.

Is OpenAI evil? Is Drake a true neutral? Did the Vanity Fair article help or hurt the industry? @khushii_w and @eshita join us to help sort things out in ep1 of Chaotic Good 👺

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 @eshita and I have a spicy episode of @archetypevc's Chaotic Good dropping tmrw image below is my live reaction to the news

fomo is the 2nd biggest onchain trading app without a desktop version. every other trading app is almost entirely on desktop. fomo web coming this month 👀

You can now open a bank account with your agent via any LLM @meow leading the charge on making agents first-class financial citizens

Verifying ZK proofs on Bitcoin is awkward and tricky, but it is possible! In Session 09 of Proof is in the Pudding, @cryptodavidw walks through the creative cryptographic workarounds that have emerged in response to Bitcoin’s design constraints ⌛️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:33 UTXO Model vs Account Model 03:08 Bitcoin Script Limitations 04:39 Verifying ZK Proofs in Bitcoin Script 06:39 ZK Bitcoin, OP_CAT 08:51 BitVM and Optimistic Verification 12:05 Timelocks and Forcing Progress 13:57 Statelessness Problem 15:06 Lamport Signatures for State 19:41 Taproot 21:29 Simulated Covenants 26:20 BitVM Fraud Proof 33:44 BitVM 3, Hashlocks, and Garbled Circuits 47:01 Cut-and-Choose Security 48:53 Witness Encryption (BABE) Proof is in the Pudding is produced in collaboration with @zksecurityXYZ

Octane is #1 on the @code4rena yearly leaderboard – the first time Al has ever held top spot. We're excited to bring the leading Al-native security analysis to more clients and contests.

RWAs aren’t just about putting assets onchain The speakers at our RWA Research Day dove into all the details that actually matter You can find the talks below from: + @YuvalRooz of @digitalasset & @CantonNetwork + @hocryptogu of @tenbinlabs + @CharlieYouAI of @RWA_xyz

“We can’t solely bring asset exposure. We have to bring the habitat around the assets onchain.” @hocryptogu of @tenbinlabs argues that simply wrapping assets still comes up short and explains what Tenbin is doing to bring market structure onchain From our RWA Research Day

“Things that were recorded yesterday are being capitalized today, and they’ll be composable tomorrow.” @CharlieYouAI of @RWA_xyz talks the three phases of tokenization and how RWAs evolve into fully onchain financial markets From our RWA Research Day

“Without privacy, we’re just going to stay a crypto playground.” @YuvalRooz of @digitalasset & @CantonNetwork explains how crypto’s lack of privacy and misaligned incentives remain major blockers to real institutional adoption From our RWA Research Day

"As each PET evolves, their pros and cons start to overlap. Well-rounded TEEs pick up distributed trust properties that used to be MPC's domain. FHE gets cheaper and more expressive. MPC gets faster." From @oddhash in the final installment of his privacy tech trilogy

Private shared state might be our best shot at fixing the internet's privacy problem And TACEO just brought it to life

Crypto's privacy tech today is like locks from the 18th century, where very locksmith was competing to make the most elaborate design possible. We need a standard pin-tumbler that anybody can use or repair. A Universal Cryptographic Protocol (UCP).