Jerome

🚀 Today, @moshaikh @neilhar @alextang & I launch Maximum Frequency Ventures (MFV) - a $50M operator-led crypto company-creation engine and venture fund. This is personal for me. I’ve spent my career moving between the discipline of institutions and the chaos of startups, and every stop along the way taught me lessons I wish more founders had access to.

Everyone thinks "do things that don't scale" is about building relationships with early users. Yes AND it's about generating mistakes at maximum density. When you're doing everything manually (onboarding, support, delivery) you hit errors every hour. Each error teaches you something the dashboard never will. The manual work IS the learning. Automate too early and you freeze your ignorance in code (and now markdown).

What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts becoming an economic actor? From autonomous payments to agent-driven commerce, this panel explores the infrastructure behind a future where software can transact on its own. Moderated by @ethen_not_ethan, featuring @henryleemr, @flightcomms, @0xryankim, and @jerome_ at SEABW 2026.

Here in BKK for a short turnaround if anyone interesting to meet 🙂

@sushikev Few

one of the biggest opportunities for the next few years. Few

One of the more interesting shifts happening in crypto is that people are starting to revisit market structure itself - not just assets, apps, or scaling. For years, the industry focused on settlement: faster chains, cheaper blockspace, better finality. that work mattered. but the actual exchange layer still largely inherited design assumptions from early crypto: centralized matching, opaque sequencing, uneven access, and infrastructure optimized more like consumer internet products than financial systems. If crypto is serious about becoming the foundation for global capital markets, then execution quality becomes a first-order problem. latency, sequencing fairness, deterministic behavior, physical infrastructure - these things sound niche until you realize they directly shape liquidity formation and price discovery. That’s why blink.trade stands out. @moonshiesty and the team are building toward a much more ambitious model for crypto exchanges: exchange-grade execution paired with transparent on-chain settlement. not just “better UX for trading,” but an attempt to rethink what internet-native market infrastructure should actually look like. Feels directionally important for where crypto eventually goes.

Don’t blink. Or do blink. Up to you. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Just don’t miss this one or you’ll regret it.

Crypto built global settlement before it built exchange-grade execution. blink is built to close that gap. Physical infrastructure. Equalized access. Tradfi-grade execution. Blockchain settlement. Today, blink comes out of stealth.

@perps @moonshiesty waitlist soon?

Who should I make 👑 today?

Polymarket on when someone launches the Swatch x AP equivalent for aftermarket watch straps? The guy who figures this out is gonna print harder than AP.

@saylor wen Vitalik style Doraemon song?

Let me recap the earnings call. $MSTR

🎙️ Thrilled to welcome Jerome Ong (@jerome_), Co-Founder & General Partner at Maximum Frequency Ventures @mf__xyz to SEABW 2026! Goldman Sachs and GIC veteran turned operator, Jerome ran regional operations at CloudKitchens across Asia and led APAC ecosystem growth at Aptos Foundation before co-founding Maximum Frequency Ventures. He brings institutional investing depth and operator instincts to backing founders at the frontier of crypto, culture, and emerging technology. He'll be exploring what the Agent Economy means for the next generation of on-chain commerce. 🎟️ Join the conversation: seablockchainweek.org #SEABW2026 #AgentEconomy #CryptoVC #Web3Asia

A lot of people outside (and inside) the industry don't know how big of a deal the Clarity Act is - it is beyond underpriced. here are just four reasons why: 1. It legitimizes crypto as a permanent part of the U.S. financial infrastructure. Crypto is no longer a fringe technology or policy issue 2. Unlocks institutional participation with clear rules of the road, less legal risk for exchanges, custodians, fintechs, banks, asset managers. This has already started but will explode. 3. Continued from #2, the number of crypto related IPOs and M&A will shock everyone to the upside 4. More assets become institutionally investable as managers will be able to underwrite regulatory risk better. We have been fixated (understandably so) on one piece of language within the broader act that the upside of this passing will catch everyone off guard.

@WLTGofficial GGMU

The way you understand football is about to change forever. Join the waitlist: wltg.ai

Lol nope.

@0xkyle__ Tbh probly also baader-meinhoff phenomenon. Quite sure there were periods it’s been very crowded

In all my years living as a Singaporean, I have never seen so many oil tankers off the strait of East Coast Park Counted ~60+ - when for the past few years everytime I went, there were at most ~10 on the horizon What is going on?

@StaniKulechov chad

Aave is my life's work and we're working nonstop to find the best possible outcome for users. I’m personally contributing 5000 ETH to DeFi United as we continue working together with partners on formalizing more commitments. I’m working to see this resolved and market conditions normalized as soon as possible. DeFi United.

@0xJeff Gotta love this one "Generic stuff you can expect from your fav LLM, these execs deliver em"

Thoughts on Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok ​ Reminded me of my old Private Equity days — dealing with corpo/gov guys working 9-5 without passion & soul ​ I normally go to builder-focused events or host a few myself. Quality builder convos/panels tend to be first-principled — there's cause and effect, what builders see as a problem and why the team decide to build [x] to tackle it ​ Contrast that with institutional events like Money20/20. Most execs talk like they haven't worked a day in their lives. "If you wanna get more adoption, go deeper. Remember, go deeper" "Stablecoins aren't integrated because of regulations" ​ Generic stuff you can expect from your fav LLM, these execs deliver em ... ​ Convos get better if you talk to mid-managers/juniors in fintech who actually put in the work, or people genuinely excited about what they're building. Rare in big orgs though. ​ The saddest part is the HUGE mismatch between stablecoin/payments vibes on CT vs on the ground at the conference. ​ People still talk cross-border payments & remittances in fiat on legacy rails. Stablecoin MC hits ATH every week on DeFiLlama but instos say it's still very early stages for them ​ The coolest part is that almost everybody sees stablecoins as a positive for the industry. Adoption is slow but accelerating, especially in APAC. Many are unbanked or don't have credit card access — stablecoin rails are the perfect fit ​ Countries like the Philippines and Thailand run on QR code payments, and stable/crypto rails are starting to plug into those ​ Another cool signal is Gen Z & Millennial spending behavior. Instead of saving for a car or house, people save for travel. They used to travel once or twice a year, now 3-5 a year, some even move to Asia for a full nomadic lifestyle. Budget tend to matter more than destination, as long as it's unique and fun, they'll just go. ​ Some fintechs realized this and are tailoring their apps around discovery over utility (e.g. curate cool stuff for Gen Z, up-sell it while they're discovering on the app). ​ All in all, Money20/20 woke me up to the reality of the world. The convergence between Web2 and Web3 is real. Web3 needs broader distribution while Web2/insto/corporates need the tech + regulations to adopt Web3 tech. ​ But.... Putting them in the same room and delivering tangible outcomes feels like it's going to be a lot harder than expected. The culture difference, the knowledge gap, the regulations are real. ​ As an industry, if we wanna maintain the builder-centric vibe, we have to do better. If not, we'd have to wear suits and beg people w/o soul for capital

@YuzuMoneyX Good to see the swift action from the team to unwind the impacted loops, and the quick update here. Good precedent for the junior tranche taking loss protection "working as intended".

True & i think it’s ultimately down to everyone in crypto having pretty much all of the following: 1) openness to new technology & being the first to try it 2) some perverted level of tolerance for scams, things to go south, or in better words heightened sense of alertness 3) everyone’s a trader/risk-taker. The very fact you’re in the industry, and I haven’t met any one who’s truly IN crypto & not a risk taker.

If you’re reading this and you’re in crypto, I don’t think you fully appreciate how lucky you are to be here right now The world outside our "bubble" is getting measurably worse at thinking & usage of your brain. Attention spans are collapsing, curiosity is being trained out of people, and the default mode for most of the internet is passive consumption of whatever the algorithm decides. It’s going to get significantly worse before it ever gets better, if ever. Meanwhile you’re sitting inside the single highest IQ, highest agency, most information dense corner of the internet, we're early to EVERY narrative in the world. and the barrier to entry is a wallet with some money and this app. You’re surrounded by people who actually build things, constantly. You can monetize attention and conviction directly and we'rr always early (TCG, Antrophic, Openclaw, Prediction Markets, War, BTC.....) Any background, any nationality, any starting point. The industry doesn’t care where you came from, only what you can produce & put in. There is genuinely nowhere else on earth where that’s this true. The people I’ve met here changed my life. My standards are higher, my thinking is sharper, my opportunities are bigger. And none of it would’ve happened in any other industry. Build a name. Post often. Be terminally curious. Surround yourself with the sharpest people you can find and let the input daily compound. Long this industry 10x.