Ethereum: $16.40B in distributed RWAs. $159.79B in stablecoins. Mature custody integrations, audited token standards, deep stablecoin liquidity - the surrounding stack already built around it. Settlement layers emerge by becoming the place other use cases route back to when they need liquidity, standards, and legitimacy. We still think Ethereum anchors the stack. Our view: hivemind.capital/content/why…

We're proud to support darkmatter lab, a groundbreaking initiative launched by @HivemindCap in partnership with @UCBerkeley, designed to accelerate frontier technology commercialization at the earliest stages – before company formation. Read more: prn.to/4uvYsPw

Really enjoyed this conversation with @keyvass. We covered a lot, including collecting for myself and @HivemindCap, building @lightyearbuild, dissecting XCOPY, and the current state of the market You can read below or on the @KateVassGalerie website

INTERVIEW with collector @Mdiac_ 1/ Every generation of collectors leaves behind a portrait of what it valued. The collectors of onchain art are no different. Some chased trends. Some chased markets. A few spent years trying to understand the deeper forces shaping digital culture itself. @Mdiac_ is one of them. Raised around art, drawn into crypto through community, and eventually becoming both collector and builder, he offers a perspective that sits at the intersection of culture, markets, and technology. From joining @HivemindCap's Digital Culture Fund in 2025 to co-founding @LightyearBuild, his journey reflects the evolution of onchain collecting itself: from participation to conviction, from ownership to stewardship. What happens when a collector decides to go deep enough to understand an entire culture through the work of just a few artists? From Francis Bacon to @XCOPYART, from collecting to building, this conversation explores what it truly means to go deep. 🎙👇 Interview by Kate Vass. Full conversation coming in the Public Edition of Collecting Art Onchain.

A lot of breakthrough frontier tech dies in the process from lab to market. By the time a frontier tech project spins out of a university lab, its team has usually spent years scrounging for compute and negotiating IP to bring their research to market. Many never reach this stage. Pre-incorporation is when critical resources are most needed and funding is scarcest. But corporate funding comes with strings attached, federal grants are limited and dwindling, and VCs cannot invest before a company incorporates. This is the gap darkmatter lab aims to close. @HivemindCap 's darkmatter lab, in partnership with @UCBerkeley, funds frontier AI & blockchain research *before* a company is formed. Each project gets a $1M package: capital and company-building support from Hivemind, $350K in @googlecloud compute credits, legal support towards IP, incorporation, and immigration from @GundersonLaw and @goodwinlaw, and additional startup resources from Berkeley SkyDeck. The result: Researchers keep control of their work with patient capital and resources from day one. No exclusivity demands, no premature pressure to incorporate, no scrambling for compute. Excited to announce our first research projects soon! finance.yahoo.com/sectors/te…

#HSCLifeRules - Stanley Huo (@stanleyhuo , Partner, Head of Asia at @HivemindCap, HSC Asset Management Hong Kong, April 23 Traditional capital markets and on-chain economies are converging. With the launch of Bitcoin and ETH ETFs, institutional capital is flowing into crypto asset classes. Tokenization efforts are opening access to asset classes that weren't previously available to on-chain investors - and Hivemind is working to bridge those two worlds #HSCAssetManagement

Some of the most important breakthroughs in AI and frontier technology never make it beyond the lab. Federal research funding is declining. Corporate funding often comes with IP concessions. And traditional venture capital typically enters the picture long after the most critical research has been done. Too often, groundbreaking ideas are left without the resources needed to reach the next stage. That's why we're excited to launch darkmatter lab in partnership with @UCBerkeley , with support from @googlecloud , @GundersonLaw , and @goodwinlaw. Built for researchers before a company exists, darkmatter lab provides at least $1 million in resources per project, including research funding, compute credits, legal support, and operational expertise. We're starting with AI and blockchain, supporting work in areas like AI infrastructure, agentic systems, cybersecurity, cryptography, compute optimization, and decentralized technologies. This is the cornerstone of Hivemind's upcoming venture fund and a new approach to helping transformative research make the leap from academia into the real world. Learn more: hivemind.capital/content/hiv…

Blockchain's defining properties are also its biggest compliance liability. Permissionless. Borderless. Pseudonymous. For years, tokenization looked like a binary choice: strip blockchain of its native properties to satisfy regulators, or preserve them at the cost of compliance. That framing is now obsolete. In her latest legal brief, Associate Counsel Maria Samson explains why. Read the full analysis: hivemind.capital/content/aml…

Howdy! Cowboy CryptoPunk #5381 joins Hivemind Digital Culture Fund

We are pleased to announce that Hivemind Capital Partners UK LLP received authorization from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager as of May 1, 2026. FCA authorization reflects the firm's high standards in respect of its compliance and internal controls, risk management systems, and reporting and transparency obligations. For Hivemind and its affiliates, now regulated in both the U.S. and the U.K., it is a testament to our institutional standard and focus, our commitment to our existing partners, and firmly positions us for the next phase of growth. More updates to follow!

Welcome to the Hivemind Digital Culture Fund, Grifter #611 Shady set complete Grifters gonna grift!

Some thoughts from @consensus2026 … Despite all the buzzy headlines, sentiment was pretty weak. Clarity Act progressed, Haun Ventures and a16z Crypto announced new mega funds, Bullish acquired Equiniti for $4.2B, and Kraken acquired Reap for $600M. Yet, sentiment on the ground was mixed/bearish. All people wanted to talk about is AI. Coinbase layoffs didn't help the mood and reinforced some people's fears on what opportunities are still left in crypto (I still think there are plenty fwiw!). Other takeaways: - Lots of suits for a crypto conference. Crowd was mostly tradfi institutions, fintechs, and crypto corporates; very few startup founders. General theme was 'tokenization of everything.' - Trad institutions seem to be looking at each other to figure out their own next steps; copying each other's next moves or following similar strategies across custody, tokenization, stablecoin acceptance, trading. - Most former crypto funds are now doing crypto & AI. - VCs don't have much to share in terms of theses or new deals. Not much deployment happening. Lots of VCs raising. Though, outside of the mega VC funds announced this week, a number of other VCs have recently closed their raises and haven't announced them yet. So we will hopefully see an uptick in new startup funding over the second half of the yr. - Some policy folks think Clarity could be passed as early as end of May. - Mastercard vs Visa: Mastercard is very focused on B2B payments expansion while Visa aims to dominate agentic commerce. - Tradfi brokerages aren't just competing against each other; they see Coinbase, Kraken, and Robinhood as their direct competition and are closely tracking their moves. - In terms of chains, Canton stole the show. Lots of chatter about partnering and building on Canton; little mention of any other chains. Patterns I noticed: - More sophisticated onchain RWA infrastructure is emerging to improve liquidity, risk management, mandate enforcement, and execution (@Corkprotocol @redstone_defi @rowa_finance @temple_ny) - Interest in compute derivatives, as well as solving for data center imposed constraints on energy, water, etc. - Similar dynamic is forming with cross-border access to tokenized assets like we've seen with cross-border payments. The leaders will be those that carve out dominance within a specific, sufficiently large geo or corridor. For tokenized equities specifically, the leaders are currently being determined as they compete for market share to bridge US equities to Singapore, HK, and UAE.