At NIV, we've been seeing tremendous growth clustering around the intersection of AI, Stablecoins, DeFi, and Fintech. This has led us to believe that agentic finance, defined broadly, will be one of the biggest trends of the next decade. Indeed, we believe that 1) AI agents are on the cusp of becoming true economic actors, able to discover, negotiate, and transact, 2) there will be billions of such agents within 5-10 years, engaging in trillions of dollars in annual transactions, 3) these agents will need new financial systems, markets, infrastructure, and tools, which will unlock applications and experiences that are hard to imagine today, and create tremendous value. This is one of our main areas of focus, so if you're working in this space, please get in touch. Full Deck Here: lnkd.in/emSGsGDK

Very excited to back and work with @StephenGrugett on the first AI-focused decentralized exchange

I just launched a longevity Rx platform. Prescriptions I personally use are there. v1 is live now. Includes access to: Tadalafil (Cialis) Metformin Oral Minoxidil Tretinoin Estradiol Acarbose We’re working with licensed doctors and pharmacies to make these medications accessible. Lots more in v2 coming next week.

The most comprehensive Hermes Desktop tutorial on the internet NOW is LIVE. You'll learn sessions, profiles, artifacts, cost savings, and real use cases for making money and building startups with Hermes agents. Whether you're already running Hermes or haven't started yet, this is the episode for you. @AlexFinn says this is the moment Hermes overtakes OpenClaw. S/o to Alex for walking me through it. "It's now the best way to use AI agents on your computer" I do think the desktop app of Hermes looks almost like an Apple product. Everything you need to know about Hermes Desktop App/agents in 43 minutes This episode is 100% free. No ads. @startupideaspod I just want to see you win on the internet. And I think Hermes can help. Plus, It's fun thing to play with this weekend. Share this with a friend. Link below. YT: youtube.com/watch?v=EJm8Ka-g… Watch

Erik Voorhees on the AI privacy problem nobody's talking about "Everything you send to ChatGPT/Claude, they have forever. All the close thoughts you share, your business info, the code you write, they save all of it" "If the only way to use AI is to hand it to a company that stores it forever, then we have a problem"

We have been working closely with @nvidia to ensure Hermes Agent works smoothly on their new @NVIDIARTXSpark superchip and integrates with the new OpenShell runtime, which connects Hermes to @Microsoft's security primitives. Watch our feature in the big announcement at Computex:

So @nockchain is going to reuse AI inference that is already happening at scale, to secure their blockchain Inference providers earn block rewards and Nockchain's security goes way up. Win/Win On Bitcoin, the mining work secures the chain only Nockchain replaces hashing with zero knowledge proofs. Consensus does not care what you computed, only that you produced a valid proof below the difficulty target So the miner and the inference provider become the same entity! Lets walk through an example 🕐 You run a GPU 🕑 A customer pays you to run their AI inference request 🕒 You serve them the answer, and in doing that you produce a ZK proof of the computation 🕓 That same proof is your lottery ticket against the block reward 🕕 If it lands below the target, you just secured a block while getting paid by the customer 🕖 One job, two payouts, and the network gets secured by real economic work instead of wasted hashing Nockchain already made chain improvements recently with Phase 2 (2.5 minute blocks and a protocol fund) but this update moves taps them into a huge existing increase in security supply while hitting the privacy aspects well @Delphi_Ventures are proud $NOCK holders and we really like @loganallc, @chiefgrug and the team. They have persevered through some big hurdles and delivered.

Privacy is defining the next generation of apps, both financial and agentic. Privacy-first AI platform @AskVenice ($VVV) has 3M users and is growing fast. NEAR is the infrastructure making it possible, from private inference to confidential execution. How NEAR powers Venice 🧵

We are proud to announce that Squid has raised $6M in funding round led by North Island Ventures and backed by strategic investors! Our new chapter has begun, with more news coming soon. Today we celebrate and say thank you. CHEERS 💫

Coming soon in Phase 2: TradFi liquidity for 100 new RWA listings.

We’ve been quiet about this one for a while. Today we can finally share it. @mural_pay is now powering stablecoin salary payments for @deel employees across Latin America.

I believe Variational will become the leading on-chain venue for trading traditional assets. I have been an investor in companies started by @mr_plumpkin and @variational_lvs since 2018, seen them navigate some intense highs and lows, and have learned is that these guys just never give up. Major congrats, guys.

1/ Announcing the first Compute Market on Nockchain: AI inference.

New day, new all-time high in spend volume. Thank you for choosing ether.fi. Onwards.

Hermes Agent is now #1 on the Global @OpenRouter token rankings. While our journey together has just begun, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our contributors, supporters, and users for all they have done to get us this far.

It was a great honor to interview @ErikVoorhees at @NetworkMedici in LA yesterday. Few people have done more to advance crypto's foundational ideals of sovereignty, decentralization, permissionless innovation, and even fewer are now carrying that ethos into AI. @AskVenice is one of the most important projects at this intersection.

Tokenized HIP-3 perps: Coming soon to HyperEVM

On-chain RWAs markets have huge potential, but are currently fragmented, shallow, and expensive. Variational solves this. Big things coming.