Paradigm

Excited to partner with @WMoushey and @andromeda_ai on shaping compute as the most important commodity of the 21st century

Tempo Mainnet is live! Starting today, anyone can build on Tempo through our public RPC endpoints. Alongside mainnet, we’re introducing the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard for machine payments.

Prediction markets are one of the most hotly-discussed new technologies of the past few years. @mansourtarek_ and @luanalopeslara, founders of @kalshi, joined @matthuang and me in the Cheeky Pint pub. We discussed their landmark lawsuit against the CFTC, how market making works on Kalshi, and where prediction markets go from here.

today we are launching v2 of our prediction markets dashboard the big new features = bar charts + line charts + improved labels the dashboard is now an extremely powerful way to navigate high dimensional data. other people should steal the design because it's spectacular 🎨🎨

new collab from @paradigm and @OpenAI: evmbench is a benchmark and agent harness for exploiting smart contract bugs a few months ago, the best models found <20% of critical, fund-draining @Code4rena bugs in our benchmark. today they find > 70%

new from paradigm: we are building a tool for exploring prediction market data try it out today. I bet you'll find new markets you never knew existed

Noise is excited to announce a $7.1M Series Seed led by @paradigm

Thrilled to back @johnrichard and the Crown team to build the Brazilian real stablecoin BRLV. Reais are bout to get rare, a matter for history museums.

Tempo’s testnet is live! Any company can now build on a payments-first chain designed for instant settlement, predictable fees, and a stablecoin-native experience. Tempo has been shaped with a wide group of partners validating real workloads including @AnthropicAI, @Coupang, @DeutscheBank, @DoorDash, @Lead_Bank, @mercury, @nubank, @OpenAI, @Revolut, @Shopify, @StanChart, and @Visa. Since our announcement, @brexHQ, @Coastal, @crossriverbank, @deel, @faire_wholesale, @Figure, @GustoHQ , @Kalshi, @Klarna, @Mastercard, @Payoneer, @withpersona, @tryramp, and @UBS have also joined as design partners. Dedicated payment lanes, stablecoin gas, deterministic finality, a built-in stable asset DEX, and programmable smart accounts are all live on testnet. If you’re building or modernizing payment flows, you can start integrating and testing today.

excited for our first brazilian investment: @CrownBRLV, the largest stablecoin in emerging markets growing up in Brazil, crypto gave me access to financial systems that developed countries take for granted @johnrichard and his team will expand these onchain rails even further

365/24/7 global banking is here w/ @n3xtinc, the first and only open for business narrow bank backed 100% by reserves and connected onchain. Great to work with this team!

We are excited to launch N3XT, a fully reserved, state-chartered bank built for the 24/7 digital economy. No lending, no leverage, 1:1 cash and T-bills. Instant and transparent USD settlement. The future of modern banking starts today. For more information, visit n3xt.io

Paradigm has invested in Kalshi over three sequential rounds this year, alongside our friends at Sequoia and a16z. It’s one of the fastest growing companies we’ve ever seen. Prediction markets are a civilization-scale truth telling machine, but they’re also a kind of breadth-first search for the set of interesting and useful financial exposures that society demands. (Much like YouTube was a breadth-first search on media). We know about elections, sports, economics, weather, etc. But there are many other verticals to be explored and discovered. Congrats to Tarek, Luana and the rest of the Kalshi team on the year of hyper growth, especially after enduring multiple years of near-certain death :)

Kalshi raised $1B at an $11B valuation. A decade ago, only a few thousand people knew what a prediction market was. Eighteen months ago, most prediction markets were banned - until we overcame the government to set them free. Over the past seven years, our community has opened up an entirely new category. Today, Kalshi is trusted, used, and loved by millions of people. It’s a part of everyday culture, and it’s driving one of the most important shifts in consumer behavior in recent history. The time has finally come for prediction markets to achieve their full potential and we are intent on making that happen. To all the believers and the early adopters: thank you.

Introducing RIFT: the first peer to peer Bitcoin trading protocol Self custody swaps between Ethereum and Bitcoin, with no middle men. Powered by Uniswap liquidity. Secured by TEEs. Now live on mainnet ⬇️

Today we’re launching Harmonic, an open block building system optimized for validator revenue and throughput, built to make @solana faster, fairer, and more competitive. Solana wins with performance and open, fair markets.⤵️

Today we’re announcing our $7.6 million seed round led by Paradigm.

Announcing Credit — an automated, undercollateralized lending system built on stablecoins. Live since December 2024, it has issued 175,000+ loans to 100,000+ unique borrowers worldwide We raised $6.6M led by Paradigm, with Nascent and strategic angels, to scale and expand Credit

Big news at @PluralEnergy : we’ve raised a $7.13M seed round led by @paradigm, with support from @VoltCapital, @Maven11Capital, & @NeoclassicCap . Learn more in Axios: axios.com/pro/fintech-de… The time to upgrade electron economy financial rails is now🧵

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We just announced Tempo, a payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm.