The new Giveth is LIVE! 🚀 We've spent the past year rebuilding Giveth from the ground up, and today we're finally ready to share it with you. A new design, new features, and a much easier way to support the projects you care about. Take a look 👇

Venice is hiring for Product Manager of Models The owner of the model portfolio across all of Venice's products: selection, reliability, configuration, and lifecycle management. job-boards.greenhouse.io/ven…

meet BOAR: a research assistant that runs entirely on your phone. Airplane mode on, no cloud, and it answers with sources from an offline library. 🧵

Congrats team 🏆 (pictured here winning the @nounsdao track at @farhackxyz just last month) @sk8ordao @realitycrafter @nounspacetom not pictured but also joining: @r4topunk @arferrari

With each example that pops up on my feed of Jev outperforming LLMs by orders of magnitude, my FOMO level increases. Patiently waiting for access so we can test it out for some of our use cases 🙏

After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev • 20-200x faster • 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free) • Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution

Big news y’all: I joined a stealth company to help lead Product 🤐 The team includes many of my favorite colleagues from throughout my career: my best friend and co-founder of Bitfract, my former boss at @ShapeShift (plus several other ex-foxes), and two of my co-founders from @thenounspace. The rest of the team is stacked too. Eager to share the product and vision, but for now I’ll just say we’re building something novel at the intersection of AI, institutional finance, and onchain 🔜 Will ofc miss working with the amazing team at @AskVenice, which also happens to include some of my favorite humans, but couldn't be more proud of what we accomplished together (growing users from <2M to >4M, growing ARR to over $100M, and achieving official unicorn status with a $65M Series A). I have no doubt the team will continue flourishing, just as they did before I joined, and I'll forever be cheering them on from the sidelines. Upward and onward 🚀

Post shit. Talk to the world. Don't overthink it. Friends... it's not about your first post, or your third post, or your 90th post. It's about posting every day until the content that works works, and then you double down on it, while still trying new, creative things. And you keep improving and getting better. It's a forever game. Just try, just DO.

New in Venice Studio: Doodle. Draw on the canvas, add a prompt, and Venice turns it into the real thing.

After 5+ years, we're winding down POAP. Over the years, we: * minted millions of collectibles across hundreds of communities. * did incredible collaborations with world-class organizations - Coinbase, Amex, WMG, Bayer, and a long tail of others, including countless in crypto. * ran one of the biggest activations at Devcon, minting 8000+ collectibles over the course of a week. * built an Airport Rally to let collectors get POAPs at airports around the world. POAP meant something to a lot of people. Unfortunately, crypto's funding cycles and distribution dynamics made it hard to build a sustainable company without cannibalizing the ethos that made POAP mean something. Building on a fragile and quickly evolving stack, in the middle of an incredible hype cycle, only added to the challenges. Still, there are some big lessons I am carrying from the POAP story. First: Customer communities are the most undervalued asset a company can have. If you build something with soul, people who use it and love it will take your brand everywhere. Do not underestimate the power of customer communities. Second: Connection is still the point. It's easy to lose that thread when the conversation is about the latest bubbly tech or price speculation, but the people using POAPs at events, in classrooms, at hackathons were getting something real out of it. Third: Longevity and brand equity are the only moats left. With the time to building and shipping something new collapsing quickly, and distribution becoming increasingly an engineering problem, customers increasingly want to make sure they can trust that the things they are buying will grow and evolve with the market, without changing radically. Grateful for everyone who believed in what we were building. It's too soon for me to say what's next, but for now, I'm thinking a lot about what GTM looks like in the age of AI.

The $DIEM (tokenized inference) target supply is increasing to 38,500 tomorrow. I expect this will drive 115K ($1.4 million) in new locked $VVV as it becomes cheaper to mint new DIEM from sVVV