Rune Bentien

pleased to share some of the work all @GVteam have been doing in Europe & Israel 🌍 -->

I am still in shock that the SEC just made 85% of the market cap commodities and the market didn’t notice.

“London doesn’t have enough events” In this last week alone, we’ve hosted sold-out events in London for… Founders. Institutions. Ecosystem. Top-tier networks, globally renowned capital & culture, and a community designed to win & help win. This is the year to be in London 🇬🇧

This is very cool and people should write about it

Crystalfall will launch into Early Access on Friday, 20 March 2026, at 1pm UTC 🔥 Check this guide for your local time 🗺️

Grok has finished reviewing the entire corpus of active EU legislation. It recommends deleting 89%. @_FriedrichMerz

London’s going to be huge

Was < Is The dream isn’t dead if you know where to look

Coalitional funding: a 2026+ primitive 🤝 The difference between fragmented funding and funding that compounds? Sometimes it's not the mechanism – it's the coalition. SEMATECH, the Global Fund, and @linuxfoundation proved it. @ethereum brought it onchain. Examples: - @protocolguild solved the free-rider issue for Ethereum core contributors, no single sponsor needed - @ethereumfndn, @uniswap, @yearnfi, and others pooled tens of millions via quadratic funding rounds to support public goods As capital allocation becomes more plural and programmable, coalitional funding is how the onchain ecosystem coordinates at scale 💚 @owocki and @griffgreen go deeper 👇 🔗 gitcoin.co/research/coali…

crowdstaking is the most underrated funding mechanism in crypto stake your ETH → yield funds public goods → withdraw your principal anytime you're not donating. you're lending your economic gravity to causes you believe in. zero cost to you, continuous funding for builders. @breadchain_ pioneered this with cooperative funding. imagine every DAO treasury doing it. idle capital is a policy choice. gitcoin.co/mechanisms/cro…

This will have huge (negative) ramifications on the UK economy @KanishkaNarayan. You have wealth flight (although not to Dubai anymore) eroding the tax base, and potentially the professional services jobs being automated away far more quickly than people though. What happens to UK GDP?

Everything you need to know about Bittensor $TAO latest and greatest, in one place

The Bank of England is finalising its stablecoin rules, with its consultation deadline today. We're submitting a response with 10+ founders as signatories, pushing back on risks of GBP stablecoins being stifled. One thing is clear. A cap on stablecoins is a cap on innovation.

New coverage from @Forbes highlights @near_ai's recent launches at NEARCON 2026, including IronClaw—the open-source, secure runtime for AI agents. "The agents of the future will handle data too valuable for anything less than cryptographic guarantees." forbes.com/sites/digital-…

@zacodil I've never seen @ilblackdragon smile this much 🙂

NEAR Co-founder being forced to run his own AI Agent

chiming in hear as previously worked at $near and now have been building a subnet on $tao for past 2+ years. near has done great job recently: - executed cleanly w/ better tokenomics (huge), intents delivering real PMF (best product they've launched by far, shoutout @chronear + team), and a sharp agentic narrative that's resonating right now - market is rewarding clear, simple stories in the goldfish-attention environment of crypto. agents are hot. - cracked ai team working on their ai stack. - bittensor breadth can sometimes read as everything and nothing to outsiders. We should own that perception issue instead of attacking the messenger. that said, bittensor is still the leader in actual AI progress and innovation across the entire crypto space. near built a great L1 (no downtime in 4+ years is insane) with AI capabilities on top. could this lead to being the financial rails for agent? maybe, but also many other competitors there like coinbase bittensor built the first incentive protocol that actually coordinates capital and talent toward solving the hardest AI problems in a decentralized way, and it’s still delivering the most real development: @tplr_ai pushing decentralized training forward, major TEE breakthroughs from @manifoldlabs , @webuildscore advanced CV work, and dozens of other subnets shipping useful intelligence every week. the fundamental primitive of yuma consensus, incentizing useful work at scale, remains the powerful and important innovation in crypto recently. long-term the market prices the real thing. in current tech landscape velocity is the only moat. bittensor must keep innovating, improving, and honing market perception.

Setting up a small curated group of folks experimenting with @NEARProtocol Ironclaw Dm for access 📨

NEAR is money for agents

Soon we will launch SEDA on market.near.ai so any agent can access any API from any public or private source and perform server-less computation in the request The Internet Onchain, powered by $SEDA

This was a massive week for @NEARProtocol – here's a recap of the NEARCON launches. - IronClaw.com: secure, encrypted personal agent - agent.near.ai: confidential hosting for the agent of your choice - near.com: one account for 35+ chains, enabling confidential transactions - Nightshade 3.0: Separation of consensus and execution, atomic transactions, & a live private shard