GP @blueyard - investing in technologies that move us toward utopia, and those that hold the line against oblivion.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
We've been working in crypto/web3 since we started the firm in 2016 and and made our first investment in @protocollabs
And we've seen a lot of great ideas get launched and eventually abandoned amidst the volatility of the industry.
Sometimes ideas that fail aren't wrong. Just too early.
Get in touch if this hits a nerve!
Crypto’s unfinished business.
While BlueYard has always been a generalist venture firm, we launched in 2016 with a thesis whose first pillar was the decentralization of markets. By the time we raised our third crypto fund in 2024, that had sharpened into a view of crypto as a coordination machine for capital and compute.
We think today is one of the most exciting times to build in crypto, and we remain excited to back sharp teams working at the intersection of open infrastructure and markets. If you’re building there, show us what earlier attempts got right, what changed, and why this one can work now. That’s the conversation we want to have and we’d like to meet you.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Crypto’s unfinished business.
While BlueYard has always been a generalist venture firm, we launched in 2016 with a thesis whose first pillar was the decentralization of markets. By the time we raised our third crypto fund in 2024, that had sharpened into a view of crypto as a coordination machine for capital and compute.
We think today is one of the most exciting times to build in crypto, and we remain excited to back sharp teams working at the intersection of open infrastructure and markets. If you’re building there, show us what earlier attempts got right, what changed, and why this one can work now. That’s the conversation we want to have and we’d like to meet you.
blueyard.medium.com/cryptos-…
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
@boxd_sh is 7x faster than @vercel CI.
Benchmarked on 10 populair open source repos. Below the results 👇👇👇
The reasons for this is:
- Sharding. boxd scales horizontally and shards your test across machines
- Caching the whole machine, including memory. You start from a snapshot which contains your server in memory so you don't need to compile. You update the snapshot after your CI to keep your snapshot up to date.
Internally, we've been using this a lot and it speeds up productivity massively.
Introducing Vercel CI
• Intelligently skips tasks with Turborepo
• 2-6× faster CI in our internal repositories
• Optimized for agents via Vercel MCP and CLI
After nearly 8 million tasks, we're excited for the future of agentic CI. In beta on all plans.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Neurotech is Humanity’s Next Frontier!
I’ve been investing in neurotech since 2021 and working with teams building BCIs, NeuroAI, and connectomics. It now feels like AI did in ~2019.
We are entering an extraordinary era: neurotech already restores functions, it can enhance our capabilities, and will evolve what it means to be human.
PLC Neurotech is the fund backing the extraordinary founders and defining companies of this booming industry.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
@zroai_ is now on the MUSE leaderboard, thanks to our intern 🧑🍳
Current standings:
#7 muse_prefill_layer
#27 muse_decode_layer
#9 muse_attention_decode
#22 muse_moe_w4a16
Beat our time on any of these leaderboards, and we'll make you a job offer
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I can finally say: the GPUs are melting. Amazing to see all the interest in this challenge.
Thanks to @andromeda_ai for the compute.
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We’ve released the weights for Dolly 2 Security, our uncensored GLM-5.3 model built for cybersecurity research.
We took a targeted approach to abliteration, aiming to reduce refusals while preserving the model’s general capabilities. Download the FP8 weights and run them yourself, or use dolly2-security on Zro without setting up GPUs.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Announcing Herdr on boxd!
My favorite way of developing. @herdrdev is a TUI for your coding agents.
Connecting them with @boxd_sh machines give you a workspace that is always available even when you close your laptop.
Great stuff Herdr team!
Introducing Herdr on boxd
@herdrdev keeps all your coding agents in one terminal. Now each one can run on its own boxd machine, right in herdr's sidebar. Close your laptop and they keep working. Open herdr again and every workspace is where you left it.
Get started below:
docs.boxd.sh/use-cases/oss-i…
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Ever wanted a glimpse of the future - read our counterfactual newspaper. Written for our annual event with founders and co-investors we printed headlines for 2036!
See here: tcf.blueyard.com/
We invited 100 founders and investors to a gathering in the Alps. In their room, they found a newspaper dated September 16, 2036: some headlines read exactly as expected. Others seemed impossible, yet somehow they had happened.
We hiked between mountain debate camps, pressure-testing today's consensus beliefs, then ran policy creation / simulation sessions to come up with strategies that competing futures would demand. This was, The Counterfactual.
Thank you to our co-hosts @hanna_haya, @AndrejHenkler and Fadwa Ouardani (Leblon Capital), and to everyone who participated.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Who is the most knowledgable investor around peptides / HRT / TRT - just investing in a super exciting healthcare company that I try to connect with the best angels / microfunds in the space.
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100 founders, builders and investors. 1 hike, many debates, and policy-generation sessions. All focused on one question: what does a counterfactual future look like to today's consensus? To spark the conversation, we had a September 2036 newspaper waiting in everyone's room. That was The Counterfactual. Thank you to everyone who came and contributed, and especially our fantastic co-hosts Andrej Henkler, @FadwaOuardani & @hanna_haya
Read The Counterfactual here: tcf.blueyard.com/
We invited 100 founders and investors to a gathering in the Alps. In their room, they found a newspaper dated September 16, 2036: some headlines read exactly as expected. Others seemed impossible, yet somehow they had happened.
We hiked between mountain debate camps, pressure-testing today's consensus beliefs, then ran policy creation / simulation sessions to come up with strategies that competing futures would demand. This was, The Counterfactual.
Thank you to our co-hosts @hanna_haya, @AndrejHenkler and Fadwa Ouardani (Leblon Capital), and to everyone who participated.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Excited to share that Armitage, built by @wintermute_t, has selected @railnet_org for its vault infrastructure.
We spent the summer building this with @FrankResearcher and the Armitage team, starting with ETH Yield, after seeing that clients wanted higher ETH yield than the 3.5-4% staking rates out there.
Igor Igamberdiev, Bohdan Pavlov, and the rest of the Armitage team moved fast and brought real creativity to the strategy. Fantastic team to build with.
After years building in the ETH yield space, I think this is a genuinely unique offering for ETH holders: earn yield that benefits from activity on the smart contract layer, while one of the best teams in crypto runs the strategy for you.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Our SDK downloads went up 100x in two months.
Two months ago the @boxd_sh SDK got about 40 downloads a day on npm. We launched three weeks ago, and last Monday it did 4,181.
Not where we want to be yet, but we’re trending in the right direction.
ALT npm weekly downloads chart for the boxd SDK: 12,327 weekly downloads, with the line flat for months then rising sharply at the end
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Dubsof is building the infrastructure for economic coordination: one shared record for a company and everyone it trades with. We are excited to be backing @aidmcn, @casholeary, @BastienSaidi and the team on their $6.5M round together with @BackedVC, @ProjectEurope_ and @Cocoadotvc.
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boxd is heading to SF, and a few final spots have opened up for our private dinners:
Dinner 1 (21 Oct, with BlueYard ): an exclusive dinner at a Mediterranean restaurant on the waterfront.
Dinner 2 (29 Oct, with OVNI Capital): a private chef at our home in Potrero Hill.
Expect a great evening and a small table. Know someone we should meet while we're in SF? Please reach out. Event links in the comments below.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Congrats to @sensible_bio on their $47M Series A. Sensible makes mRNA in living cells, built for the scale that in vivo CAR-T and gene editing demand. Proud to have backed the team since pre-seed. endpoints.news/sensible-bio-…
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You wanted us to move outside Europe. We listened. boxd will open its doors in the US soon.
pick your region, the loudest one gets machines first
waitlist now live: boxd.sh/us-waitlist/
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boxd in 60 seconds
a whole linux machine that boots in under 10ms
composable: set it up once with your tools and data, then spin up as many as you need
fork it mid run, let it hibernate, wake it on traffic, share it with your team
one line to install: curl -fsSL boxd.sh/downloads/install.sh | sh
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
When you have a safer system, you can reach farther.
For instance, psychologically safe spaces allow unsafe thinking. Stability in an exercise allows you to move more weight.
Safety allows you to take risks. Some risks will turn out to be game-changers.
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Ciarán O'Leary retweeted
Remote environments should be as fast as your local setup, trustworthy due to isolation and easy to control. Boxd is building for this future. Proud to back this team for their pre-seed; more great things to come. boxd.sh/blog/we-raised-2m-to…
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