every crypto brand looks the same: fuzzy gradients, abstract blobs, dark mode, hi-tech aesthetic that evokes zero emotion. why is this the norm? at @CambrianNetwork, we wanted to break the chain. we turned to nature for inspiration and teamed up with not a brand designer, but a plant biology engineer. one of the first things @NickDesnoyer said to me while we were building our brand really stood out: "plants are, in a way, nature's technology. they're beautifully complex natural hardware that interact with the environment." that's when it clicked. at Cambrian, we're building the financial intelligence layer for AI agents. but focusing on AI doesn't mean rejecting nature we thought - what would it look like to integrate nature's technology with humanity's technology? what are the parallels in the veins of a leaf and a printed circuit board? a few brainstorms later, our brand aesthetic was born let's challenge our preconceptions of what hi-tech looks like. let's build the solarpunk world we want to live in, together 🪴

UPDATED: the Agentic Finance Landscape for Q2 2026. Our most in-depth report yet. Agentic finance is a household name now. Since our Q1 report, Robinhood, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and many other reputable names have acknowledged that agents are the future of finance. Not all agents will make it into that future. That's why our team spent the last 3 months testing agents, filtering out hundreds of slopbots, and identifying only the most legitimate projects shaping this emerging sector. Presenting the latest cohort of the AgentFi Landscape 🧵

If you boo AI today, you'll experience a comparatively worse quality of life tomorrow. Here's a perspective from someone who's worked in AI for the last 15 years: We're in the beginning years of the Intelligence Revolution whose impact will dwarf that of the Industrial Revolution. Whichever country leads it will attain the longest lifespan, the highest GDP, the most abundance, and the cleanest environment (see my reasoning below). These benefits will eventually spread to other countries over the decades. AI's abilities are roughly equal to the number of computers you have running, and that's roughly equal to how much energy you can produce. If we get commercial fusion, then we can move away from fossil fuels and towards a cleaner environment. Dramatically slowing AI will keep us on fossil fuels for decades longer, because it would slow fusion research. We saw a similar thing with old-school nuclear power. We could have been off fossil fuels decades ago, but the backlash against nuclear will keep us and the world burning oil and coal for many years to come. The same delays are likely to happen in medicine if left untouched by AI. Depending on the backlash, it will take decades longer to get medical breakthroughs. We're also in a global competition with China. A few years ago, they outpaced the US in scientific publications. Now they are productizing their science. There's a non-zero chance that division within the US will slam on the brakes, and China will blow past us. In a decade, we may be left wondering how China became a sci-fi country, and the US became Europe. There's no going back from competing with other countries. With satellites, drones, robots, and hypersonic weapons, every country is now a neighbor. We can't isolate the US from outside competition. The first few generations that grew up post-WW2 had it pretty good. The US economy and military were strong, and our adversaries were far away. But throughout most of human history, we've had to fight and compete. One nice thing about being human is that we're the only species that both uses tools and adapts to new tools immediately. Like it or not, AI is a tool that everyone living in a capitalist country will need to learn and compete with. If you're in an authoritarian country, then the government and military will use AI, and then you'll just need to do what they tell you. Zooming out, the AI genie is out of the bottle. All countries have people who understand the math of AI and how to build it, and in the long term, humanity will benefit. It may take some countries decades longer than others for various reasons, but that doesn't matter in the long run. What would you tell someone who booed the internet 30 years ago?

in sf if you want to become a founder you have to say “update your priors” 3 times in the presence of 3 other founders

History books will call this The Second Renaissance. What to expect as early as this year: - Hollywood-quality fanfiction (we deserve a better GoT ending) - AI music that's so good you can't tell the difference (and don't care) - Conflicted feelings More ⤵️

imagine telling someone in the 1960s that their grandkid was going to work as a "senior email marketing manager"

productivity theater basically describes 90% of the vibe coded projects you see on the timeline

managing risk is no longer a question of human v human. not even human v scripted bot it’s human v armies of ai agents

"renaissance 2.0" is a term you're going to hear thrown around a lot in the coming years historically, brilliant ideas for art, movies, music, and shows died trapped in the minds of creative souls who lacked the money or means to turn ideas into reality now, ideas ARE reality

the money lost to exploits will continue climbing - unless people study this well-researched gem

don't let this one get buried in your bookmarks doomslop has consumed ct and left behind a hollow husk. i'm finally feeling optimistic after reading you don't get a well-researched (100 hours) banger like this every day

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Is it over for software developers? @austingriffith and I just debated that very question and more anxieties of the AI era. Check out the podcast hosted by @imyoungsparks and @Timccopeland, where we also talked about: * Clawdogging 😳 * x402/8004/AgentFi adoption * Single-founder unicorns * Expected wave of hacked protocols after Mythos is released * Permissioned chains vs. open chains that support permissioned apps

what happened with drift might end up being a butterfly effect moment with institutional adoption of DeFi

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Summary of my DAS bull post: * Every major TradFi asset (fiat, equities, treasuries, private credit) will be tokenized. Starting in the US, other countries will follow * There's evidence that access to after-hours trading can lead to higher returns * Tokenized assets will lead to a boom in DeFi lending * Regulated assets will carry their trading rules onchain, but they will interact with and boost permissionless DeFi Visiting the NYSE trading floor was my favorite part of DAS.

Yesterday's Institutional Ethereum Forum in NYC revealed a lot about the future of the industry. Top takeaways: * We're seeing daily headlines about the convergence of DeFi and CeFi. Expect the rate of adoption to accelerate aggressively. A panelist quote: "When you see a big announcement, like the NYSE enabling 24/7 stock trading using blockchain tech, you can assume other exchanges are getting investor pressure to quickly enable the same." * This isn't a simple merging between CeFi and DeFi. We're going to see more permissioned financial products using public blockchain rails, with permissionless DeFi continuing to run and grow alongside them, and interesting compositions between the two. * Western Union (175 years old!) will launch a stablecoin this year. It's significant because they have physical distribution in over 200 countries - imagine the international regulatory barriers they've already figured out. * SWIFT, the international bank messaging service used to transfer bank deposits, is building a blockchain to facilitate the transfer of stablecoins and tokenized assets. They already have a deep relationship with banks. They expect this to lower transaction costs and settlement latency for customers who won't know or care that a blockchain was used. * Moody's (the 115-year-old credit rating agency) just released its 2nd stablecoin rating methodology. * The EF is aggressively pursuing post-quantum resistance. They believe that quantum attacks against classical cryptography could become practical within the next decade. The Bitcoin community is dragging its feet on the topic - this could be disastrous for everyone. Thanks for curating such a high signal event, @kyleArojas.

if your startup doesn't double as an accelerated ai graduate program, you are simply ngmi

if you think LLMs make better stock pickers, you don’t know how LLMs work

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