Rob Schmults

@cyclesmoney @cbventures @primitivecrypto @CompoundVC @CMCC_Global @Maven11Capital @nascent @cygnicapital Excited to get to partner with @cyclesmoney

We’ve raised $8.7M to bring clearing to the masses. Our new round was led by Blockchange to work on the most powerful idea in finance. It’s not just about moving money faster & cheaper; it’s about moving less while doing more.

Grateful to our investors, Blockchange, @cbventures, @primitivecrypto, @CompoundVC, @CMCC_Global, @Maven11Capital, @nascent, @cygnicapital, and angels, for backing us on the long journey ahead to bring clearing to everyone. Respect the Graph! Read more at: cycles.money/blog/cycles-ra…

At InnovateMiami: As Crypto Matures, Are Tokens Losing Their Structural Advantage to Equity? Tokens vs equity as institutional capital enters the market. Is the advantage still there? Featuring: @joe_bruzzesi (@raptordigitalhq) @schmults (Blockchange Ventures) James Newman, CFA (@joinrepublic) Johnny Garcia (@vechainofficial) @jmmognetti (@CoinSharesCo) May 6 | The Bass, Miami Beach Apply now: innovate.thetie.io/tickets-miami

Introducing Virtual Vaults: a new platform for institutional onchain lending, secured by Space and Time.

The momentum keeps building for InnovateMiami. Rajeev Bamra (@moodysratings) @NicolaWhite444 (@RobinhoodApp) @schmults (Blockchange Ventures) Join us May 6 at The Bass in Miami Beach for panels, networking, and curated 1:1 meetings with leading investors and builders. Register Now: innovate.thetie.io

@unicity_labs Excited to be partnered with you!

Unicity Labs Raises $3M to Scale Autonomous Agentic Marketplaces Seed round led by blockchain VC firm Blockchange Ventures. The Unicity Protocol enables AI agents to form peer-to-peer trustless marketplaces at machine speed ZUG, SWITZERLAND - February 17th, 2026 - Unicity Labs, a protocol development company building the agentic autonomous internet, has successfully raised $3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Blockchange Ventures (@blockchangevc), with participation from Tawasal (@TawasalSuperApp), a Middle East-based communications super app, and Outlier Ventures (@oviohq), a leading Web3 early-stage investor. The timely raise comes as AI agents (software entities that can independently discover services, negotiate terms, and execute transactions) evolve from conceptual tools into economic actors. The global agentic AI market is projected to exceed $100 billion by 2032. In line with this, Unicity Labs has developed the Unicity Protocol, a peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture enabling autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and transact at machine speed without intermediaries or shared ledgers. The Unicity Labs team, which previously built and exited Guardtime, a cybersecurity infrastructure company, includes PhD researchers in distributed systems, cryptography, and machine learning. The company recently established the Unicity Foundation in Switzerland to oversee protocol governance, grant funding, and open-source development. As AI agents become increasingly autonomous, they will need to discover services, negotiate terms, and settle transactions continuously, at scale, without human intervention. Today's infrastructure forces a trade-off: centralize through big tech, sacrificing trustlessness, or rely on traditional blockchains, which bottleneck when millions of agents transact simultaneously. "Satoshi's whitepaper was titled 'Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash.' Seventeen years later, we still don't have true peer-to-peer or electronic cash. Every transaction still routes through shared ledgers, introducing unnecessary bottlenecks," said Mike Gault (@mgault), CEO of Unicity Labs. “Unicity changes that. We’re not building another marketplace or trading platform. We’re building the infrastructure beneath them. Unicity provides the place and the rails that allow agents to discover each other and settle directly, frictionlessly, peer-to-peer, at the scale and speed the agentic economy demands.” "The shared-ledger model that defined the last decade was designed before the AI-driven world we are now entering," said Matt Immerso, General Partner at Blockchange Ventures. "Unicity didn't just patch the old system, they built its successor thanks to their critical innovation that separates transactions from validations. By having the network simply confirm an asset’s uniqueness rather than processing its entire context, Unicity delivered the breakthroughs in speed, scale, and cost that are absolute prerequisites for a future powered by autonomous agents." Tawasal, a leading communications super app in the Middle East serving over five million users, participated in the round as a strategic investor. "Today, merchants spend enormous amounts acquiring customers - buying ads, competing for attention, hoping for conversions," said Eric Leandri, CEO of Tawasal. "In an agentic economy, merchants don't market to people. They sell to agents - agents that have been instructed about what their users want and are ready to transact. Unicity's infrastructure makes that possible, and it will fundamentally change the economics of commerce." "The industry has spent a decade optimizing shared ledgers. Unicity asked a different question entirely: what if agents don't need a shared ledger at all?" said Dimitrios Chatzianagnostou (@ChatziDimi), CIO of Outlier Ventures. "That architectural shift is what makes massive scale agent-to-agent commerce possible.”

Join @PanteraCapital, @Arrington_Cap, Blockchange Ventures, @SentoraHQ for a playbook on building durable protocols in 2026 Featuring: @ColtonFConley, @0xKATYA, @masonnystrom, @Matt_Immerso 📍ETH Denver 🎫Apply to attend: luma.com/backers-and-bu…

Minima has reached a milestone the blockchain industry has discussed for more than a decade, but never truly delivered: a fully functioning Layer-1 blockchain node running directly on embedded hardware, without reliance on cloud infrastructure, heavyweight runtimes, or specialised servers. Today, Minima runs on the Arm processor subsystem inside an FPGA board, with custom cryptographic accelerators. Minima’s deterministic architecture, combined with a purpose-built C++ code, positions Minima as the first blockchain genuinely engineered to live inside autonomous machines, not merely alongside them. This is not a concept or a speculative roadmap. It is working now. Read on for the overview, or over this link for the full update: minima.global/post/minima-ac…

NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat are live! We're bringing hardware-backed, verifiable privacy to AI inference for enterprises, developers, & end users. Privacy is a requirement for User-Owned AI. None of today’s centralized AI products guarantee privacy for users & businesses. We’re moving into a transformational stage where AI will make decisions on our behalf, run on all our devices, and have more context about our lives. But we need AI to be on our side and aligned to our success, not prioritizing corporate profits. cloud.near.ai

We’ve split the atom(!) and enter a new era breaking Ethereum blocks down into synthetic 100ms sub-blocks on mainnet. These ‘Realtime Blocks’ were the result of many teams working tirelessly, and independently, to make Ethereum better. This new era, the realtime era, is a significant milestone for Ethereum and the ecosystem at large - let’s break this down 👇👇

Introducing Space and Time v2: the data blockchain securing onchain finance. With the latest mainnet upgrade, institutions can now use SXT to secure offchain financial datasets and power more sophisticated asset tokenization onchain.

S&P Global is excited to announce plans to expand its S&P Dow Jones Indices crypto index offering with the launch of the S&P Digital Markets 50 Index. Dinari, a leading provider of tokenized U.S. public securities has licensed the new index to create a #token tracking the benchmark. The index is designed to track a wide range of companies and digital assets connected to the #crypto ecosystem, combining cryptocurrencies and publicly traded crypto-linked equities into one index.    Read the full press release here >> okt.to/BRP9Y3

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EXCLUSIVE: Equity tokenization firm Dinari is rolling out a proprietary Layer 1 with @avax to serve as a global, compliant settlement layer for tokenized stocks.. @sndr_krisztian reports. trib.al/ccoMMVS

Dinari is Building the Infrastructure for Tokenized Equities, powered by Avalanche. With its consortium-based model, @DinariGlobal is exporting US equities to the world seamlessly and compliantly through its purpose-built @avax L1, called the Dinari Financial Network. The L1 serves as a public utility hub for tokenized asset issuance, trading, and settlement, bridging traditional equities and liquidity with their onchain versions and powering equities markets across chains. With institutional partners like @vaneck_us, @BitGo and @Gemini already leveraging its capabilities and validating the network, Dinari's L1 is emerging as the next gen DTCC--unifying clearing and settlement for Dinari-issued stock tokens, no matter which blockchain they live on. The Dinari Financial Network offers: Omni-Chain Liquidity: By acting as a coordination hub, the network prevents liquidity fragmentation and ensures market depth. Institutional-Grade Controls: The Avalanche-powered architecture allows for the compliance automation and governance required for regulated securities. 24/7 Global Access: This infrastructure sets the stage for continuous trading of U.S. tokenized equities, while making them accessible to a global investor base. The Dinari Financial Network joins the growing list of institutional partners and protocols--banks, asset managers, FMIs, FinTechs, Neobanks, etc.--leveraging Avalanche to operationalize their digital asset strategies. Avalanche, where capital connects US equities with the rest of the world.

@anthenor indeed. working on that. love your work!

Automotive with Minima 100k EVs and 100k charging wallboxes are set to run Minima in our Proof-of-Concept (POC) project with @Zeekr_Europe. There were over 350 million connected cars in 2023, and projections exceed 640 million by 2027. As the number of EVs and autonomous vehicles grows, so does the need for decentralization. Autonomous driving, data sovereignty, and real-time decision-making all require secure on-device nodes. Minima enables that, bringing blockchain to the edge.