In the @FT today, I argue that if AI is just another productivity tool, the productivity gains will be limited. For lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives. "Had the 19th century focused solely on better looms and ploughs, we would enjoy cheap cloth and abundant grain — but there would be no antibiotics, jet engines or rockets. Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed."

We have always been bullish on London... The London @EFetheverywhere hub at Encode Hub 🫶

Gitcoin 3.0 is mapping the Funding Infrastructure of the Next Internet The funding infrastructure of the next internet is being built right now. It is powered by AI, crowdfunding, stablecoins, and open source software. These forces are reshaping how people coordinate, build, and create value online. They are also breaking the legacy systems that fund innovation. Venture capital optimizes for upside, not public goods. Grants are slow, brittle, and local. Governments cannot keep up with global, permissionless networks or open innovation. At the same time, AI is exploding the supply of builders and ideas. The result is a growing gap between what can be built and what will be funded. A new funding stack is emerging. Capital allocation is becoming programmable. Funding decisions are moving on-chain. Evaluation is continuous rather than episodic. AI assists with discovery, review, and signal extraction. Stablecoins enable instant, global payouts. Open source makes outputs composable by default. This is not theoretical. Quadratic funding, retroactive funding, bounties, streaming grants, dependancy funding, and coalition-based funding are already live. But the terrain is fragmented. Builders don’t know where to go. Funders don’t know what works. Signals are noisy, incentives are misaligned, and experiments are isolated. What’s missing is a map. Gitcoin 3.0 is positioning itself as a cartographer of this new funding landscape, and a basecamp for its builders. By embracing the pluralism of onchain crowdfunding providers, Gitcoin 3.0 catalogues real-world funding experiments and turns hard-earned lessons into shared knowledge. It builds a schelling point for builders and funders, where they can discover and evolve open, composable allocation primitives together. And it creates a common social space and mental model so builders, funders, organizations, protocols, and AI agents can coordinate more effectively. The next internet will not be limited by a lack of ideas. It will be limited by how well we fund them. The opportunity is to crowdfund the next internet, together.

Open Source Endowment endowment.dev/ #OpenSource #Funding #endowment

The agent economy is exploding...But there's no trust layer. Introducing Reputable — the Credit Bureau for AI Agents. 256 miners competing to build the best reputation algorithms. On-chain ground truth. Genuine Proof of Intelligence. My Bittensor Subnet Ideathon submission 👇 youtu.be/hW3cKPl4wqs?si=gpUx…

BRO SUPPLY LEADERBOARD NOW AVAILABLE 🟠👑 Our @CharmsDev explorer is now ready to share. 🔗explorer.charms.dev/ You can see every Charms protocol transaction, all circulating charms on Bitcoin, and the supply distribution for each charm. Right now, this primarily includes the BRO supply distribution. You can easily see every address holding BRO (over 3200!) and the share of the BRO supply held by each. Keep in mind that our indexer is still a work in progress. Some data may not reflect accurately (yet). I'm currently ranked around #686, though it's overestimating my holdings a bit. Still, it's come a long way, and it is key infrastructure that will be used once Cast launches with BRO trading. Use CTRL F to search for your address under the holders tab. Give it a try!

🎉 I just completed the Tavily Web Search API Certification! I'm now certified in using Tavily's powerful API for building AI agents and RAG applications. Tavily provides amazing tools for: • Web search and content extraction • Real-time information retrieval • Building intelligent AI agents Want to try it yourself and get certified? 👉 app.tavily.com/certification #Tavily #AIAgents #WebSearch #Certification

Just shipped: Injective Signals API ✨A prediction market-style analytics derived from perpetual futures data: Implied probability, Sentiment index, Momentum scores and Liquidity analysis Built for @injective 🚀 @NinjaLabsHQ @NinjaLabsCN 👇github.com/ivanmolto/injecti…

Huge thanks to @BTC_OS, @CharmsDev, and @encodeclub for an incredible hackathon. Honored to take home 1st Place 🏆 Hard money makes honest markets inevitable. Great code makes winning inevitable⚡️ Now, back to building 🛠️ youtu.be/YfLUdc1467E?si=WD_J… #Bitcoin #HackathonWinner #Build

So while @CharmsDev been building Cast the Cardano integration... ...there were THIRTY other teams building dapps on Bitcoin using Charms, during the BOS hackathon! 🟠💎 The 3 winners were my favorites. 1. Echo Markets - Bitcoin Prediction Market 2. zkUSD - BTC Backed Stablecoin 3. EternalKey - Bitcoin Inheritance Vault Every project submitted GitHub documentation and demo UIs to boot. So much to explore already. Which should I cover first? 👀

Skipped last week's Crypto Grant Wire since it was quiet, so this one covers two weeks of updates. Link in thread below!

Wrote up some thoughts on the state of crypto grants. Comes from a conversation that turned into an hour-long brain dump. Four years of lessons in one post Check it out if you are interested (link below in 🧵)

🔥 Just dropped my #horror #generative #AI video submission to the Surreal World Assets Buildathon by @StoryProtocol & @encodeclub 👁️‍🗨️🎥 Watch it here 👇vimeo.com/1146170511/8d834ef… #AIart #Veo3 #Festival #film #creativity

Just dropped the latest Crypto Grant Wire weekly update (link below)

Hey 👋 I've decided to start publishing a weekly update of all the happenings from the Crypto Grant Wire on my Substack. Here's a rundown, you'll find a link at the end where you can check out the Substack (and subscribe, ofc)

Everyone in class: “I wanna be a firefighter!” Me: “I wanna be an OG grant like @pcaversaccio , @humnpassport, and @vyperlang 🔥” Help EAS Pulse grow up 👇 giveth.io/project/eas-pulse #GG24 #PublicGoods #OnchainData #Ethereum

Dev Tooling or Interop? 🤔 Why not both? 🧠 Think less. 💸 Give more. Support EAS Pulse on @Gitcoin Grants 24 @Giveth — bringing clarity to the Ethereum Attestation ecosystem. 🔗 giveth.io/project/eas-pulse #GG24 #Support #Ethereum #Arbitrum #Optimism #Analytics