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I’ve stopped trying to explain what XFounders is.
It’s easier to say what it isn’t. 🧵
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The countries moving early on digital asset regulation are building capital formation advantages that compound for a decade.
Most governments haven't done that math yet.
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If your team only moves when you're in the room, you've built a bottleneck.
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Decentralized GPU compute networks are attracting serious institutional capital.
AI needs infrastructure and that infrastructure is increasingly on-chain.
The convergence is a deployment decision now.
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The builders who scale well hold context across time zones, functions, and stakeholder types without losing the thread.
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Nelson Daniel Lopez | e/acc retweeted
Jun 11
#DeDinero El Salvador es atractivo para la inversión gracias a la seguridad y estabilidad jurídica, destaca especialista
El analista estadounidense, Evan Ellis, destacó que la transformación que ha experimentado el país en los últimos años ha generado condiciones favorables para el desarrollo económico y la llegada de nuevos capitales.
diarioelsalvador.com/dediner…
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LatAm VC hit $4.1 billion in 2025.
Capital is back but it is conditional now.
Follow-on rounds require proof.
That is a healthier market and a harder one for founders who raised on narrative alone.
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Ecosystem building is a long game disguised as a short one.
Everyone wants the network effects.
Nobody wants to do the first hundred relationships.
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Nelson Daniel Lopez | e/acc retweeted
Jun 10
UNESCO REPORT: El Salvador ranks #1 in Latin America for open source repository quality
Open-source excellence is a signal of real technical capital and El Salvador has been stealthily stockpiling it.
The UNESCO report finds this pool of talent an "unexpected strength."
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Jun 10
🇸🇻UNESCO highlights El Salvador as a regional leader in artificial intelligence
Earlier today, ANIA and UNESCO presented the RAM report, which places the country first in Latin America in terms of open source repositories and with a perfect score in legal framework.
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The AI investment thesis is concentrating fast. In 2025, AI attracted 34% of all global VC dollars.
What happens to every other sector when capital keeps narrowing like this?
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Permissioned blockchain networks built for institutional settlement will move faster than public chains in the next two years.
Compliance embedded at the protocol layer is the unlock.
Who is building that infrastructure?
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Nelson Daniel Lopez | e/acc retweeted
El Salvador's Economy Grows Less Vulnerable to Global Shocks. elsalvadorinenglish.com/2026…
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Most pitch decks answer the question no investor is actually asking.
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The first enterprise deal a startup closes teaches them more about their product than the previous two years of building.
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Southeast Asia late-stage funding surged 140% in early 2025. Bigger bets, fewer companies.
Capital is concentrating around proven models.
That pattern usually reaches LatAm two cycles later.
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Latest article on @elsalvador.
Today, on a country’s investment legibility.
Question asked, narrative vs reality, the impact of informal facilitation, and more, below.
Inversiones: ¿qué tan legible es El Salvador? diarioelsalvador.com/depalab…
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Urgency is a mood, not a strategy.
Founders who operate from urgency burn their teams before they burn their runway.
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Stablecoin adoption in Latin America and Africa grew 40% year over year.
For reference, North America grew 4%.
Emerging markets are building a financial system parallel to the one that excluded them.
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A founder who can't explain their unit economics in two sentences doesn't understand their business yet.
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RT @levelsio: I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps
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1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or
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RWA tokenization crossed $16 billion in DeFi TVL last year. The infrastructure is maturing.
The question now is which legal jurisdictions will set the terms for the next $100 billion.
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