Cofounder @0xMiden l Contributor @ForbesCrypto
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The news is out! Couldn't be more excited to announce that I'm back in the ring as a builder. Coming on as a co-founder to @0xMiden with our $25M seed fundraise being co-led by @a16zcrypto , @1kxnetwork , and @hack_vc .
I spoke to what must have been over a 100 projects in the past few months, but nothing came close to being nearly as exciting as what this team is building.
My co-founder @bobbinth is genuinely the most impressive person I've met in Web3 in the 13 years I've spent in this space. And this is no exaggeration. Brilliant, humble, and hustles like no other.
Vitalik brought him into Web3 and got him working at the EF years ago on zk, then he went to Meta where he led the zk team, and is a Polygon cofounder as well. When I say the most impressive, I mean it.
Privacy, scalability, and decentralization, with the ability to offer compliance. That's what separates Miden from just another blockchain. And we're going to be bringing institutions on chain with this.
If you're a builder in this space, I'd love to hear from you. My DMs are open.
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Ever since Mamdani got elected nothing but good things happens in New York
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Why I really like Miden's Guardian approach: it simultaneously strikes the right balance on multiple dimensions
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On Wednesday, I was on stage at @ETHConf talking about the final missing pieces for institutional adoption.
The bottlenecks have always been technical, operational, and regulatory.
Now we're seeing real movement on all three: privacy chains have matured from theory into something usable, and the regulations are getting clear with MiCA and GENIUS passing, and the CLARITY Act coming
Regulators, builders, and institutions are finally pulling in the same direction.
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What if crypto didn’t feel like a cyberpunk terminal?
WIP on making crypto a calmer experience
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Boys Club LIVE at @ethconf with @spaceandtime. Featuring guests @amandacassatt of @serotonin_hq, Scott Dykstra of @spaceandtime, @azeemk of @0xMiden, and @chriseyin of @plumenetwork | s/o sponsors @spaceandtime @vercel @0xPolygon <3 x.com/i/broadcasts/1pKdRRPde…
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Cost of Trust 2.0 is an iteration and refinement of 1kx's investment thesis.
Generative and agentic AI are creating new categories of trust gaps. Generative AI has created an authenticity crisis for digital media. Agentic AI is increasingly bottlenecked on trust rather than raw model capability, especially when it comes to deployment into businesses.
To tackle this emerging class of trust gaps created by AI, we believe that blockchains, together with other trust-manufacturing technologies such as programmable cryptography, formal methods, secure hardware, and cybersecurity, will become critical building blocks.
Jun 10
35% of US employment is spent creating trust.
Auditors, notaries, attorneys, courts, custodians, compliance officers. Trust-establishing work is the single largest category in the modern economy.
It is also being repriced.
The repricing started in financial infrastructure. Custody costs heading to zero. Cross-border settlement collapsing from days to seconds. Aave hit $44B in custody at peak (late 2025) at zero fixed cost.
It hit AI a second time. The Hong Kong CFO who got on a Zoom call with deepfakes of his CEO and the board, and wired $20M. AWS outages caused by AI agents managing production clusters without human oversight.
AI is the most powerful trust-eroding technology we have built. Trust intermediaries built on human schedules cannot keep up with fraud produced on machine schedules. The cost of creating fakes goes to zero. The value of verified trust goes up exponentially.
And it is opening categories that were not possible before. Permissionless conversion-based advertising. Hallucination-proof knowledge graphs. Programmable insurance.
Eight years of investing. One argument.
Cost of Trust 2.0, our 2026 thesis. Read it: 1kx.capital/thesis/cost-of-t…
35% stat: "The Cost of Trust: A Pilot Study," SSRN.
Aave peak TVL: DefiLlama.
AWS outages: The Guardian, February 2026.
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My fav founder on stage talking about institutional adoption and @0xMiden
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Last night I had the privilege of moderating a fireside with @nyknicks legend @ALLAN_HOUSTON .
We discussed leadership, entrepreneurship, purpose, and the challenge of building a legacy that extends beyond the game. Particularly through the lens of his new fashion brand FISSL, and a partnership with @espn for a capsule collection.
Fun fact: Allan told me he hasn’t finished Iceman yet, but loved that Drake chose the title because his favorite basketball player of all time is George “Iceman” Gervin.
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Jun 9
Boys Club LIVE @ethconf
Tomorrow, Wednesday 6/10, 12pm EST
we're chatting with
@amandacassatt x @serotonin_hq
Scott Dykstra x @spaceandtime
@azeemk x @0xMiden
@chriseyin x @plumenetwork
s/o sponsors @spaceandtime @vercel @0xPolygon <3
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@0xMiden joining forces with the rest of the crypto industry
Today, Miden joined hundreds of organizations in calling on the U.S. Senate leadership to bring the CLARITY Act to the floor.
The bill, which passed the Banking Committee with bipartisan support, would establish clear rules for digital asset markets and strengthen consumer protections, and give the United States a real framework to compete on.
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Today, Miden joined hundreds of organizations in calling on the U.S. Senate leadership to bring the CLARITY Act to the floor.
The bill, which passed the Banking Committee with bipartisan support, would establish clear rules for digital asset markets and strengthen consumer protections, and give the United States a real framework to compete on.
Stand With Crypto and over 200 organizations sent a simple message to Senate leadership: it's time for the Clarity Act.
The community is unified — large companies, startups, associations, and grassroots groups across the country are counting on their lawmakers to deliver rules of the road for crypto in America.
The Clarity Act passed the Senate Banking Committee with bipartisan support.
Now it needs to cross the finish line. Tell your Senators you want Clarity 👇
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Today, we added Miden's name to a coalition calling on the U.S. Senate leadership to bring the CLARITY Act to the floor.
It would establish clear rules for digital asset markets, strengthen consumer protections, and give the US a real framework to compete on.
This is the kind of regulatory clarity and progress we have been asking for. It should not sit on a shelf.
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Stand With Crypto and over 200 organizations sent a simple message to Senate leadership: it's time for the Clarity Act.
The community is unified — large companies, startups, associations, and grassroots groups across the country are counting on their lawmakers to deliver rules of the road for crypto in America.
The Clarity Act passed the Senate Banking Committee with bipartisan support.
Now it needs to cross the finish line. Tell your Senators you want Clarity 👇
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Last week I was on stage at @ProofofTalk with Kathleen Wrynn, Global Head of Digital Assets at Invesco, digging into what changed for institutions this cycle.
The short version: regulations are becoming clearer and they no longer view digital assets as just portfolio exposure but as financial infrastructure. During our chat, Kathleen pointed to Citi modeling $8T of assets tokenized by 2030 against $31B today as proof of how loud that conviction has gotten.
Then you look at stablecoins. The market cap has sat flat near $300B, but once GENIUS-compliant issuers and tokenized bank deposits come online, that is a wave of digital money that needs products to flow into.
Never been a better time to build the future of finance.
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