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Launching a new podcast today! Filmed at our NYC office, each episode of @Archive_Pod focuses on a founder or operator who has built an important crypto business/protocol. The first episode is with @keoneHD, founder of @monad. We dive into Keone’s upbringing, the early days of Monad and the journey to raising the seed round. Plus, we talk about recruiting + scaling the team, and the philosophies they used to launch and grow the network. Here's what we discussed: 0:00 - Intro 0:42 - Altitude 1:32 - Monad's Launch 4:25 - Keone’s early life and interests 16:52 - Where Keone’s work ethic came from 19:52 - Working at Jump and how the culture passed on to Monad 24:26 - Starting Monad 30:05 - Raising the seed round for Monad 32:29 - Growing the Monad community and open-sourcing code 36:35 - How Keone hired for the early team 44:07 - The future of Category Labs 51:26 - Which metrics is Monad focusing on 1:00:24 - Building a base of loyal and passionate users 1:07:45 - The personality of an L1 founder 1:13:46 - Founders that Keone looks up to 1:18:34 - Day in the life of Keone 1:23:57 - The endgame vision for Monad

Today we're releasing ZKP2P V3, our most automated, composable evolution of a peer-to-peer on/offramp protocol, live on @base The first & last mile problem has never been closer to solved. We've scaled from $10k to>$100k daily since Feb. The journey to our next 10x starts now👇

1/ Not entirely convinced that futarchy is the correct framework for early-stage startups to operate. TL;DR: Founders typically don’t want markets to make decisions for them because they are usually much more informed than the market. VCs are fine with this information asymmetry but public investors are not and the cost of communicating this information to public investors is not feasible for early stage startups.

2/ Full post here: reverie.ooo/post/lessons-f…

1/ You can dislike memecoins and still respect @pumpdotfun They've become one of the top revenue-generating platforms in crypto without token incentives or paid marketing. Just startup fundamentals done right @adyantdag and I break down the strategy behind their growth 👇

The Palantir for Stablecoins Today, we launch the first real-time intelligence platform for stablecoins: an asset-centric multichain explorer, the largest attribution dataset, entity and blacklist feeds, and a risk API. The brain tracking trillions of dollars onchain is here.

As crypto matures, projects are growing up with it by leveling up their internal operating practices They’re scaling from startup to something closer to a growth-stage company. That means figuring out how to run your internal org (who does what and who reports to who?)

TL;DR - Decentralized AI is slower, pricier, and lacks access to high quality data. - It might be the only path once centralized data centers hit their limits. - It’s not (yet) competitive, but it could be a useful alternative if it works at scale. reverie.ooo/post/can-decen…

Monetization Even if decentralized AI produces valuable models, how contributors get paid is still unclear. One idea is to split model weights across workers (so no single party controls the model) and share inference revenue by contribution. But this is still bottlenecked by communication, and only works if real demand exists. x.com/PluralisHQ/sta…

Frontier AI models are trained in data centers with 100k+ GPUs, high-speed interconnects, industrial cooling, and 24/7 uptime. So when I hear claims that they can be trained on decentralized networks of consumer GPUs, I’m skeptical. Can decentralized AI really compete? 🧵

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Say Zello to our newest payment provider 👋 You can now on- and off-ramp directly from your U.S. bank account using Zelle on ZKP2P.