We’re thrilled to lead Lassie’s Series A. Most small businesses are run by reluctant operators. Owners set out to serve their customers and communities but end up buried in back-office work. Dental practices are a perfect example. Dentists train to care for patients, but much of their time is consumed by insurance claims, payment reconciliation, staffing, and cash flow. Lassie is building AI that runs small businesses, starting with dental practices. Before writing a line of code, Cofounders Steijn Pelle and Frédéric Renken spent months working inside a dental office, processing payments by hand to deeply understand the workflow. Lassie is not a copilot that creates more work for the practice to review. It does the work. We’re excited to partner with @steijnpelle, @fredericrenken, and the @lassieai team as they build toward the small business that runs itself. By @arampell and @omooretweets

AI was trained on the open internet, but the data that matters most lives in the real world. Introducing early access to Numo, an app built to collect the next generation of AI training data. Starting with voice data collection in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. Details ↴

The next wave of AI depends on data that can’t be exposed. Now with Confidential Data Rails (CDR), that constraint disappears. ▸ Data stays encrypted ▸ Access is defined upfront ▸ Secure pre-conditions held for decryption Live now on testnet.

Thanks for the kind words @PatrickAlphaC , great having you in our council. "I think this is a very valuable role, and it’s something that the Story Protocol does very well. Their security council is often pinged for advice; we discuss industry hacks and open dialogue on how changes in the security landscape should drive action on the Story team. In this scenario, I think it’s important to separate this from a “Security Council” that has defined on-chain roles they often act on, vs. “Security Advisors” who advise on actions." Go read the full article!

I onboarded a new teammate at Story last month. Since then, he's written 9 RCAs, reviewed 31 PRs, and handled 81 Slack requests from coworkers, all in production. Story is an IP blockchain company, and I'm the only infra engineer on the team based in Asia. He covers the hours I can't. He's an AI clone of me. Here's how it's wired ↓

Introducing Confidential Data Rails (CDR), a new primitive for securely transferring private data. Here's how it works ↓

Global Wallet is live. One wallet across the Story ecosystem. No more handling cross-app transfers. License once. Use everywhere. Docs ↓

Encrypted data shouldn’t require trusted intermediaries. Confidential Data Rails (CDR) delivers general-purpose rails for confidential data movement. Testnet soon ↓

Message me on the World app at `eddylazzarin` with what you’re doing with AgentKit. I would love to hear about it and I’ll tell you what I think Since there’s no spam, my notifications are wide open!

The @wearegalantis remix of "Busy Boy" by @RESCENEofficial is now live via @Aria_Protocol. Galantis touts 7B streams, a Grammy nomination, and several platinum records worldwide. RESCENE is the next big K-pop sensation. Royalties flow to $APL holders, only possible on Story.