Personal update: I’ve joined @Colosseum as Principal. I was first introduced to @clayrobbins in January 2024, the month Colosseum launched and right before they raised their first fund. I was impressed with him, @mattytay and @n8levine from the start, and I’ve followed them from afar ever since, watching them turn Solana’s hackathons into a pipeline of incredible companies. Over the past year we kept getting excited about the same startups, and realized we see early stage investing the same way. Very excited to finally be a part of it. Most crypto venture money right now goes into later-stage rounds. But the next big companies start as two people and a hackathon project, usually too early for a typical fund check. Colosseum covers that whole stretch. The hackathons bring builders in and keep the culture grassroots. The accelerator backs founders from the idea stage. The fund lets us keep backing the breakouts from the accelerator, and companies beyond it. The best part is how many founders I’ll get to work with, and helping them build the next generation of crypto products and companies. Looking forward to reviewing your hackathon submissions in the arena @mxmnci built. If you’re building, even if it’s just an idea, my DMs are open. I’ll be in London for Breakpoint too.

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More productive liquidity in the ORE Reserve. The Reserve now allocates half of its stablecoin deposits to USDv from @solomon_labs. USDv generates native rewards without staking or locking assets, allowing the Reserve to earn on its stablecoin liquidity while maintaining buy side support for ORE.

My @colosseum pitch for BP26-VIBHU: - Events are growing to $1.5 trillion by end of 2030 - We're reinventing how people get event tickets with a guaranteed 25% discount - The more users that use codes, the more events pay us for distribution, kicking off a flywheel - Growing 5400% w/w with a path to 100 million clicks by EOY - We started with Solana Breakpoint but there's already significant organic demand for discount codes to other events

Imagine if Bitcoin's protocol was able to take the money spent on hardware and electricity and instead use that to buy a basket of assets that backed $BTC via an on-chain non-sovereign wealth fund while utilizing a much fairer form of mining. That's @ORE.

There is 1 week left to submit your product to Crypto World's Fair! 🎡 $800,000 in total prizes and more than $2.5 million from Colosseum's venture fund will be invested into winning founders.💰 Join 8,500+ builders already in the arena: colosseum.com/worldsfair