On March 13, we rang the opening bell at @NasdaqExchange for KRAKAcquisition Corp. (KRAQU). Nasdaq is the home of dynamic change — the internet, AI, and what we see happening now in financial markets and infrastructure. We look forward to coming back with a partner company that embodies it. Great day with the team, families, and partners. Thanks to @NatCapCentral, @krakenfx, @tribecap, and our advisors and independent directors @mooredant, @brevsin, @artzandy, @bendavenport, @JReedRosenthal, and @nikichain. Special thanks to @superjz, @arjunsethi, @LaurenP0ST, and @LunaPRofficial.

Excited to announce KRAKacquisition Corp. (KRAQU)—a SPAC formed in partnership between @NatCapCentral , @krakenfx, and @tribecap, where I serve as CEO. Throughout history, speculation has catalyzed lasting innovation: Dutch East India shares created equity markets. Grain futures built the Chicago Board of Trade. Junk bonds opened mid-market capital access. The same pattern is unfolding in digital assets. Over $240 billion in private investment since 2016. 650M users globally. Stablecoins settling $136B in payments. What began as speculation is now crystallizing into infrastructure. We're focused on companies building the convergence of DeFi and TradFi—payment networks, tokenization platforms, blockchain infrastructure, compliance solutions. Companies ready to scale in the public markets. Fortunate to partner with @mooredant, @brevsin , and independent directors @artzandy, @bendavenport , @JReedRosenthal , and @nikichain. Special thanks to: @superjz @arjunsethi @LaurenP0ST @LunaPRofficial

capital treadmills (perpetual dilution) vs. capital catapults (front-loaded, finite dilution) What appears to be disciplined, prudent investing (the gradual drip-feed) in marketplaces/software is actually a trap that can lead to worse outcomes than the seemingly riskier approach of larger, concentrated bets on deep tech.

Using AI/ML in your smart contracts means trusting a single source of truth and a single point of failure. How can we consume ML outputs that are verifiable and decentralized? 🚨 Introducing Spectral’s Mainnet. A Machine Intelligence Network, powered by #zkML, that ushers in The Inference Economy. How does it work? Spectral's machine intelligence network operates as a dynamic two-sided marketplace. On the one side there are miners (Modelers) who train and contribute machine learning models in a privacy-preserving manner. On the other side, we have Consumers with a fundamental demand for customized, high-quality inferences. To address this need, our network produces verifiable ML inference feeds for smart contracts. While existing oracle networks cater to data feeds, most notably for price data, Spectral addresses a significant gap by enabling an unprecedented feed of high-quality inferences. Spectral’s feeds expand the scope and capabilities of smart contracts, opening new horizons for decentralized applications in web3. 🔗 Our Blog Post post covers all the details bit.ly/46Juc7Y Our Vision: We’re building an incentive network, which will change how web3 perceives and interacts with machine intelligence. At its core, Spectral fosters a decentralized, global community of top data scientists and problem solvers. Through various competitive ML challenges this community is perpetually incentivized through bounties and majority of ongoing revenue. Any web3 company can access these high quality ML models through our streaming inference feeds and implement them directly into smart contracts. Because the model’s proof-of-execution is verified by zkML (powered by @ezklxyz), web3 companies can avoid single point of failure and minimize bias in their ML usage. Find out more: spectral.finance/ 🚀 Calling All Modelers: We invite all Data Science/ML enthusiasts, students and professionals to join our first challenge: Crafting a web3 Credit Score. 💰 High Stakes: Your chance to win a $100K bounty: Showcase your ML skills and be at the forefront of machine intelligence in web3. Thanks to @AlchemyPlatform, @notnotstorm (Cryo), @gakonst (reth), @duckdb, @ErigonEth, @ezklxyz, @graphprotocol, @MessariCrypto and @TransposeData who help make this possible. Their tools and products have helped us create a comprehensive data set, powering our ML Network.

Our next chapter begins today! Check out the NEW metadrop.com and read this thread to the end to learn about Drop Rewards 👀 Since 2021 we’ve had the pleasure of launching NFT drops for some amazing projects like @bywassies, @AnataNFT & @webaverse among many others.

Very excited to be among the first investors and long-term oasis passholder in @wildxyz !

1/ Today, we announced that Wild has raised a $7M seed round. Our CEO @douglassNFT spent some time chatting with @camgthompson at @CoinDesk about this exciting milestone and what’s to come with Wild! coindesk.com/web3/2023/03/09…

1/ 💥 Today’s a big day at Equals — we’re launching dashboards. 💥 Forget yet another BI tool. Build fully automated dashboards with the flexibility and familiarity of a spreadsheet. Support our launch on Product Hunt, and learn more below 👇 producthunt.com/posts/dashbo…

Today we're sharing the model that @figma used to understand and forecast their self serve business. @sean__whit built it. He was one of Figma's first 40 employees. Figma still use it. Blog post, video, and template below 👇

Congrats to @heyequals on this huge milestone!

Surprisingly few VCs do: 1) take the lead in scheduling 2) run an efficient process 3) treat the founder with respect 4) invest fairly, or, pass transparently 5) send a thank you to who made the intro The best do this, but most do not.

web3 Uber is ridiculed as one of the worst ideas It’s actually one of the best, we’re just not ready for it yet Here are the key missing pieces needed to make it happen

Excited to share what had us so eager to back @__sishir and some early @SpectralFi metrics in advance of his talk at fellow General Catalyst portfolio company @circlepay conference this week! #ConvergeSF22 generalcatalyst.com/gcamplif…

Neat global crypto adoption index from @chainalysis: blog.chainalysis.com/reports… #1: Vietnam #2: Philippines #3: Ukraine #4: India #5: United States

I'm excited to support @wildxyz as they come out of stealth. Talent is equally distributed but opportunity has not been...yet. Wild is changing that by harnessing the creativity of global artists to build a new immersive world for people to create, share, and sell their art.