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We have the solution to Kryptos, one of the last great cryptography puzzles. But it’s a secret, even to us.
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We love puzzles, so we acquired the secret to one of the most notorious puzzles in cryptographic history. Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encrypted message on it. The final 97 characters of it have never been solved. Here's what we're doing with the solution.
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We have the solution to Kryptos, one of the last great cryptography puzzles. But it’s a secret, even to us.
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There is a mysterious copper sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encoded message. Even after 35 years, the final piece of the message remains unsolved. We bought the solution from the artist who created it, encrypted it so that even we don’t know the answer, and set up a way to automatically check solutions. To help hone your skills, we created a new challenge: ten Kryptos-like puzzles of increasing complexity and difficulty. The first person to solve each puzzle will win $1,000, with a $10,000 total prize pot. Watch the full video, learn about Kryptos and its creator, Jim Sanborn, and try your hand at the puzzles: paradigm.xyz/kryptos
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We’ve just raised $175M, in a round co-led by @paradigm, @a16zcrypto, and @RibbitCapital, the largest raise DeFi has ever seen. Credit is the bedrock of our civilization, but the infrastructure underneath is fragmented, extractive, and closed to most of the world. That is what @Morpho is here to change. Morpho is building the open credit network for the world. The global credit market is $ 200T. We are building the infrastructure layer that will move it onchain, and every institution, fintech, and bank that wants to participate in the next era of finance will connect to this network. After four years of being heads down building Morpho, we now count more than $11B in deposits and integrations with leading financial institutions including @Coinbase, @Binance, @FireblocksHQ, @SG_Forge, @krakenfx, @Bitwise, and dozens of others building on Morpho to offer better products to their users. But this is just the beginning. This raise will allow us to accelerate: activating the global credit network at scale, building the go-to-market engine to match our ambition, and bringing more institutions onto the network faster. Having any kind of onchain strategy in this era will mean going through Morpho at some point. Reach out and let's talk. And if you want to help build the open credit network for the world, we have plenty of open roles. Let’s fly 🦋
Morpho Association has raised $175M to build the open credit network for the world. Co-led by @paradigm, @a16zcrypto, @RibbitCapital with strategic participation from @apolloglobal, @vaneck_us, @circle_ventures, and @Ledger @Cathayinnov. The round also included participation from @variantfund, @wmt_ventures, @preludexyz, @IOSGVC, @HashKey_Capital, @sbigroup, @Bpifrance, @mirana, @bamazizimesh, NJJ Capital and 10 other strategic partners. The funding will help accelerate Morpho's position as the foundation for onchain credit.
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Open Sourcing Centaur: Multiplayer, self-hosted, secure agents for Slack. Centaur has been transforming how @paradigm and @tempo invest, build and research. Now you can run it yourself on infrastructure you control. Instructions below.
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Excited for Paradigm to co-lead this $110M investment in SendCutSend alongside @andrew__reed, @patrickc, and @collision. 24h turnaround manufacturing that your favorite robot, defense, space, and car companies all use. Grateful that @jimbelosic allowed us all to get involved.
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Congrats to Hermes Agent and the whole @NousResearch team!
Hermes Agent is now #1 on the Global @OpenRouter token rankings. While our journey together has just begun, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our contributors, supporters, and users for all they have done to get us this far.
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Space can become critical infrastructure only when we build the capabilities to defend it. In very rare cases, you come across a founder excruciatingly well suited to deliver on the mission. @jollyrogersta is that founder. Thrilled to back him and his team at @The_TrueAnomaly!
Today, True Anomaly announced its $650 million Series D fundraise. All of it invested in one mission: space superiority. We are building autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and now, space-based interceptors. All designed from the ground up for contested space, at the speed and scale the moment demands. Thank you to our investors, customers, partners, and employees. Read more on our blog: trueanomaly.space/newsroom/o…
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Apr 21
Enterprises are bringing stablecoin payment flows into production on Tempo, including @DoorDash, @stripe, @CoastalBankWA, and @arq_finance. We're also launching our Stablecoin Advisory to help more enterprises build real-world payments workloads on stablecoins.
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Applications are now open for the 2026 Paradigm Fellowship: a 4-day retreat for young people who are obsessively good at something technical. For our fourth year, we're expanding to welcome builders across every frontier — AI, robotics, energy, bio, prediction markets, or something we haven't thought of. Last year's cohort came from 10 countries. Some were undergrads, some were dropouts, some were founders, some came from OpenAI, SpaceX, Citadel, and Kalshi. The format is simple: firesides, whiteboarding sessions, and time to hack. What makes it special is what happens in between, and after. Fellows have met cofounders, started companies, and gone on to raise from Paradigm and others. I was a fellow before joining Paradigm, the retreat was a transformative trip for me, and I met some of my closest friends through the program. Apply by June 8th. Retreat runs August 12–15th.
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Hyperliquid
This is the story of Hyperliquid, the most profitable startup per employee on earth, told from a guarded office in Singapore. Last year, its team of 11 generated $900 million in profit. It's 3 years old, has never taken a dollar of venture capital, and is beginning to change how century-old markets work. Its founder, Jeffrey Yan (@chameleon_jeff), had never taken a physics class when he picked up a textbook at 16. Two years later, he won gold at the International Physics Olympiad. In 2019, he started trading with $10,000 from a living room in Puerto Rico—working off a television because he didn't own a monitor. Within 3 years, he was running one of the largest anonymous crypto trading firms. Then he shut it down. Yan was rich and free, but he had spent years inside crypto, watching it betray itself. Bitcoin's central premise was decentralization. Yet the biggest exchanges were centralized. Crypto kept reintroducing the dependence on trust it was built to eliminate. He set out to create what should have existed. Hyperliquid is a blockchain with a trading exchange on top, and anyone can build on it. Yan's vision is to house all of finance. In 3 years, it has done over $4 trillion in volume. And in the past few months, it has begun to outgrow crypto. Markets for oil, silver, and the S&P 500 now trade on Hyperliquid around the clock, weekends included, and are growing roughly 40% week on week. When the US and Israel bombed Iran on a Saturday in February, Hyperliquid was the venue traders turned to. Hyperliquid's success has cost Yan his freedom. He works out of a secret office in Singapore and cannot travel without two bodyguards. Even the team's housekeeper doesn't know what they do. In January, @domcooke spent a week at their office. Read his profile on Yan and @HyperliquidX below.
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We’re excited to finally announce a $5.2 million seed round led by @Paradigm
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Excited to partner with @WMoushey and @andromeda_ai on shaping compute as the most important commodity of the 21st century
Proud to finally share what we have been working on @andromeda_ai Honored to partner with @paradigm to build the global market for compute.
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Tempo Mainnet is live! Starting today, anyone can build on Tempo through our public RPC endpoints. Alongside mainnet, we’re introducing the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard for machine payments.
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Prediction markets are one of the most hotly-discussed new technologies of the past few years. @mansourtarek_ and @luanalopeslara, founders of @kalshi, joined @matthuang and me in the Cheeky Pint pub. We discussed their landmark lawsuit against the CFTC, how market making works on Kalshi, and where prediction markets go from here.
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today we are launching v2 of our prediction markets dashboard the big new features = bar charts line charts improved labels the dashboard is now an extremely powerful way to navigate high dimensional data. other people should steal the design because it's spectacular 🎨🎨
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new collab from @paradigm and @OpenAI: evmbench is a benchmark and agent harness for exploiting smart contract bugs a few months ago, the best models found <20% of critical, fund-draining @Code4rena bugs in our benchmark. today they find > 70%
Feb 18
Introducing EVMbench—a new benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities. openai.com/index/introducing…
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new from paradigm: we are building a tool for exploring prediction market data try it out today. I bet you'll find new markets you never knew existed
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Jan 14
Noise is excited to announce a $7.1M Series Seed led by @paradigm
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Thrilled to back @johnrichard and the Crown team to build the Brazilian real stablecoin BRLV. Reais are bout to get rare, a matter for history museums.
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We’re pleased to share a major milestone: Crown has raised a $13.5M Series A, led exclusively by @paradigm, their first investment in Brazil. Crown is now valued at $90M. This marks an important step in building the future of financial infrastructure in Brazil.
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