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@HelpedHope

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VC @Delphi_Digital . Prev: Solana Labs (summer) HelpedHope Founder Marvin L Kay Fellow in Finance @ GeorgeWashingtonU

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@HelpedHope
Golding
3 years
@lessin Men will literally complain about cheerful greetings rather than see a therapist
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3 years
@zackseward this is how shoes are tied when you get them off the rack at the store and don't bother to re-lace them
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@HelpedHope
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2 years
Ironically, a white hat hacker came to our defense and started DOS-ing the hacker, which made the RPC nodes (these r different from network validator nodes) go down, hence why the block explorers froze for a few hour: H/t @0xMert_
@0xMert_
mert | helius.dev
2 years
lmao you can't make this up - some madlad started DOSing the hacker which caused the RPC nodes to start failing FYI - the chain is fine
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2 years
1) this is not a “solana blockchain” attack. The network is fine. We do not know the exact cause
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@HelpedHope
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3 years
Today I officially started as a Ventures Associate @Delphi_Digital , a leader in our industry. We fit together like peas in a pod due 2 our strong values alignment: Deep analytical research Focus on strategy, "Sleeves rolled up” approach to helping portfolio companies (1/n)
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@HelpedHope
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10 months
On the ground report from Solana Breakpoint, Day 5: - Founders pitched me from 12:30-7:30pm Takeaway: I feel more redpilled about crypto eating the world than I have in a long time. Solana lets people solve a very diverse set of problems that other L1s/L2s don't - Detailed my
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@HelpedHope
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1 year
@Delphi_Digital ‘s @Delphi_Ventures are proud to be giving a workshop to the ~280 dev teams building solutions that are Only Possible on @solana . If you want to learn about: - Product Strategy - Marketing Strategy - Fundraising - Corporate Strategy, Tune in August 15th!
@LamportDAO
Lamport DAO
1 year
From building your hackathon project, to on-board the next million web3 users That could be you! But to reach such goals you need more than just passion and hard work, so join in and listen to Alex from @Delphi_Digital to learn about how you can scale up and become VC backed
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11 months
@0xMert_ is single handedly setting narratives globally and people aren't giving him enough credit for this. Ever since he started kvetching about building products people want to use, tons of VCs/Accelerators have reached out asking for consumer deal flow. The gr8 thing about
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5 months
Suicune ($HSUI) on Sui... interesting. probably convincing people to bridge, and then use various protocols on Sui... thus qualifying people for airdrops, while letting them get access to an ecosystem that is blossoming as more and more teams build there. I like
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@HelpedHope
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10 months
CALLING ALL PRE-SEED/SEED STAGE FOUNDERS @SolanaConf : VC Pitch Event is tomorrow (Friday) from 12:30pm+ in the rooms above Basecamp. Sign up here: VC’s participating: @multicoincap ’s @shayonsengupta @BigBrainVC ‘s @veets__ and Bane @ReciprocalVC ’s
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@HelpedHope
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9 months
Our hats @Delphi_Digital are off to the entire @jito_sol team (disc: investors). It has been a pleasure working with them for the last ~2 years and watching them build out the rails for lightspeed value propagation on Solana.
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@HelpedHope
Golding
4 years
Yesterday, Fortune published an article Charlie Metzger and I co-authored on providing #access to #capital to nontraditional leaders, especially minorities and members of the Black community. The article may be found here: #OpportunityZones
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@HelpedHope
Golding
3 years
@jsrailton @Maersk This is the most interesting this i’ve seen on twitter all week
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@HelpedHope
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3 years
@kevinzalokar @RookieXBT Same. Then I owed taxes on the $300k i didnt have
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@HelpedHope
Golding
11 months
Hot take: Solana's potential is being actuated. If you are building on Solana today, hit me up. @Delphi_Digital 's VC arm, @Delphi_Ventures is interested in meeting you As @ceterispar1bus said: While I am stoked for Breakpoint 2023, can't wait for 2024!
@swen_sjn
swen
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> Be @vadorovsky and @ananas_light > Never go on Twitter > Quietly turn Solana into a zk-beast > Here’s how: > Ship massive zk-syscalls into the Solana runtime > Alt-bn128 syscall > Poseidon syscall > and [redacted] syscall > result: > light speed > private transactions in
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@HelpedHope
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7 months
I'm looking for a vc intern who can support me here at @Delphi_Digital doing research into new and emerging tech. DM me why I should hire you, include a resume and degen score (or equivalent) please.
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18 days
just had a midnight call with a founder. bullish @larry0x
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@HelpedHope
Golding
6 months
Had a great time speaking for @Delphi_Digital @Delphi_Ventures about the Appchain Investment Landscape with @delitzer Found at @nascentxyz , @marekSan Investor at @Rockaway_X , @analyticalali Principal at ReciprocalVC, @nic_lemniscap Investor at @Lemniscap , and @chjango of
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3 years
@danheld Taxation isn't necessarily theft. I enjoy have fire services and many other services the gov't provides. The material question is does the amount of services the gov't needs to provide equate to it being compensated at the rate of 40%, 50%, or 60%+ of the value I create?
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@HelpedHope
Golding
4 years
@thejasonbrown @david_perell Neuroscience and lived experience both show that humans do not need to ingest a substance to experience joy, especially at dinner with friends
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@HelpedHope
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6 months
If you are a startup raising funds, you are at ETH Denver, and we haven't met yet, please DM me your pitch and deck. @Delphi_Digital @Delphi_Ventures wants to hear your pitch.
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@HelpedHope
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4 years
@Sonnenshein @Grayscale With all this growth, you may need another hand to help manage growth opportunities. I’d love to be your MBA Summer Associate and help out
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@HelpedHope
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9 months
Met with a well known VC last night who didn't know what @jito_sol was. We are so early
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@HelpedHope
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10 months
On the ground reporting from Breakpoint: - 10+ new signups by founders to pitch me and other VCs tomorrow. Takeaway: lots of founders will get in front of sophisticated investors asap - Jupiter airdrop announced, will be distributed to almost 1mm users. Takeaway: Solana’s
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@HelpedHope
Golding
5 months
Shout out @redphonecrypto & team building @asteroidxyz ($ROIDS), the 1st & only inscriptions platform on Cosmos In just 10 weeks, they built a CFT-20 & NFT marketplace (collections, royalties & rarity traits) If @opensea x @blur_io x @StargazeZone had a 👶 --> $ROIDS
@asteroidxyz
Asteroid Protocol
5 months
1/ Collections are here! 🥳☄️ For 5 years, @cosmoshub had no native NFTs. With the launch of @asteroidxyz , there are now 40,000 of them! And today, they grow exponentially more powerful with collections, royalties and rarity traits… Here’s how 🧵👇
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@HelpedHope
Golding
1 month
Many of you know us @Delphi_Ventures as the most discerning crypto*AI VC. Now, we take it to the next level Introducing: The Delphi AI Analyst Please submit your PDF here (), and our agent will process it. Humans will take a 2nd look The future is now!
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@HelpedHope
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3 years
@vtg2 @JStein_WaPo Agreed: The value and freedom traditional banking provides to its employees and customers are much lower. Also: they have never been classified as brokers. Imagine if the entire middle and back office of a bank had 2 KYC its counterparties everytime a spreadsheet was updated!
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@HelpedHope
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10 months
5 lessons I learned reading ~1,800 pitch decks in the last two years. 1) Make sure your logic is tight. Everything should be organized by topic in a MECE (mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive) format 2) If English isn't your native language, find someone who is good
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@HelpedHope
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1 month
Very excited for Initia to be coming to market with such a strong program. From the moment I started DD on Initia, I recognized it had the potential to be what Cosmos always wanted to be. With the VIP program, now everyone has an incentive to discover this as well
@initiaFDN
Initia 🪢
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Initia VIP is a new multi-chain economic framework that drives INIT to be the foundational asset of a new world. Through programmatically parameterizing the distribution of INIT, VIP creates economic alignment tying the network of interwoven rollups together.
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@HelpedHope
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15 days
what are your favorite on chain venues to trade FX ? @GainsNetwork_io , what else?
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@HelpedHope
Golding
4 years
@ErikVoorhees @BarrySilbert I think Doge just pumped 500% based on your rumor .
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@HelpedHope
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19 days
I really hope that everyone complaining about the lack of innovation in crypto leaves the space so I have less competition. Locked in. DM’s open to pitches
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@HelpedHope
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3 months
I'm ( @Delphi_Ventures ) hosting Crypto Office Hours next Thursday, May 30 2024, at 10am EST. If you are a founder looking to pitch me or looking for advice on: - fundraising - product strategy - marketing strategy - hiring/ops then send me a DM and we will schedule time.
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@HelpedHope
Golding
6 months
@dieworkwear So few tailors know how to make a clean break
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@HelpedHope
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2 months
Excited to join @chasegm_ from @moleculebtc , @0xbrainjar from @mantis and @afkehaya from @ABKLABS about the Solana Virtual Machine today (SVM). Topics include: - What is the SVM - What is Molecule - When to build an appchain/L2 - Go to market strategies - When should an
@afkehaya
kehaya
2 months
g(sv)m - We'll also be joined by @chasegm_ from @moleculebtc - excited to not only talk to a builder but also to hear the perspective of an investor, @HelpedHope (Alex Golding). It will be an interesting discussion for sure!
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6 months
EthDenver is so much fun this year. Haven't been to one party yet, just great networking with people who are BUILDING! Having meetings past midnight, learning about the progress everyone made over the last 12-18 months, seeing the innovation, meeting IRL.. FEED IT TO ME!
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@HelpedHope
Golding
1 year
@Delphi_Digital is proud to support devs building in the Cosmos ( @cosmoshub ) ecosystem. To this end, I will be coaching devs and judging the upcoming @ATOMAccelerator @DoraHacks hackathon alongside @DeanTribble @ericzhang90 and @hdevalence Details below… see you there!
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@DoraHacks
DoraHacks
1 year
Hey devs, wanna explore and develop your ideas on @cosmoshub ? 🪐 Don't miss out on the AEZ Boost Hackathon Opening Ceremony! We're co-hosting this exciting hackathon with @ATOMAccelerator . Let's further the #CosmosEcosystem together! 🚀 ⏰ Aug 10th, 8am PST 📺 Binance Live:
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@HelpedHope
Golding
4 months
Base enjoyoooors hit me up. @Delphi_Digital @Delphi_Ventures is in town and looking to meet
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@HelpedHope
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1 year
@Delphi_Ventures is excited 2 back @Aark_Digital , an innovative peer-to-pool perps DEX that solves core issues in DeFi. Aark aims to reduce the price impact of some trades to the point of it being virtually nonexistent. 8 core features that change the perps game 🧵👇
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@HelpedHope
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3 months
We @Delphi_Ventures are proud and excited to be backing @BullpenFi by @salxyz , @blknoiz06 , and team The thesis is simple, and powerful: - Signal is valuable, but hard to find. - These founders have unique ways to find trading signals, and they can now share these methods with
@salxyz
Sal Qadir
3 months
Bullpen is comprised of 3 fundamental pillars: 1. Mobile-First Wallet 2. Trading Interface 3. Generative Insights Let's dive into each core feature 👇
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4 months
This is sick! Love watching the @asteroidxyz team build in public! Now AMMs, credit protocols, wallets, exchanges, price-tracking sites, and others will all support CFT-20s. Creators can incentivize CFT-20 LPs on @astroport_fi And token burns can be automated
@redphonecrypto
redphone ☎️🧙🏻‍♂️
4 months
Asteroid Protocol @asteroidxyz has been fairly limited in what it can do w CFT-20s, but this bridge should change the game... among other things, it unlocks potential for: 👉 Easier integrations for CFT-20s by third parties (i.e. AMMs, credit protocols, wallets, exchanges,
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@HelpedHope
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8 months
@dieworkwear This happens ALL the time. I can think of half a dozen tailors in nyc, hk, and “traveling tailors” who hawk MTM as bespoke or custom. Thanks for pointing these things out
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@HelpedHope
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2 months
All day I study crypto, crypto news, & crypto founders, looking 4 the best products+teams @Delphi_Ventures can back 2x/week: in uni, upskilling crypto*AI (building on 5.5 years of comp sci background, c/c++/mfc, java, html/css/javascript, python, php, & sql) 2 better DD pitches
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@HelpedHope
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10 months
On the ground report from Solana Breakpoint, Day 1: 1) More registrations this year than last year 2) Certain teams teased that they will release tokens (are you ready, anon?) 3) Tons of new faces (takeaway: just as after a fire in nature, fresh roots are planting and the
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@HelpedHope
Golding
1 month
SOL casually doing > 3600 TPS, no chain shutdowns, while the biggest of the big tradfi brokerages are out. gg Solana engineers!
@Austin_Federa
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸
1 month
unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing. back to building
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Looking forward to mentoring the next generation of startups on behalf of @Delphi_Ventures at @EclipseFND 's Total Eclipse Challenge. Helping crypto happen faster than it would without us is what Delphi is all about.
@EclipseFND
Eclipse (🐮,🌑)
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Builders, researchers, VCs. The best of the best are here to judge and mentor the Total Eclipse Challenge. Need I say more?
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Had a great time speaking on @afkehaya @ABKLABS 's + @0xbrainjar @mantis 's podcast with @chasegm_ @moleculebtc about - What is the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) - Why would builder want to separate it out and use it to build an SVM appchain / L2 - What is Molecule and why did
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4 months
@blknoiz06 @BullpenFi It isn’t showing?
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@HelpedHope
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8 months
@LessFnGas Preciate you doing this after the new year instead of on christmas
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@HelpedHope
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7 months
Congratulations to @ashwathbk as well, for becoming the Head of Delphi Creative. Ashwath and his colleagues have worked on consulting projects for teams such as @Optimism @anoma @EclipseFND and others. They are making crypto happen faster and better than it would without them
@anildelphi
Anil Lulla
7 months
But that’s not all.. Also super excited to announce @ashwathbk has been promoted to Head of Delphi Creative – our rapidly growing consulting arm Our team of industry veterans can help with everything from key infrastructure decisions to GTM strategies to token design & more
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3 years
@santiagoroel Starting to see that 👀👀 @DeFi_Land
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10 months
4 lessons in VC that keep staring me in the face, and I'd like to share with you: 1) Invest only in top decile founders & ideas (a) how to screen: if you get any doubts during the initial DD process, & they aren't immediately dispelled, RUN!) 2) Invest without emotion: do not
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@HelpedHope
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6 months
yo wtf everytime i take a night off to have a date something crazy like this happens: Boden up 1,480% lesson learned: no girlfriends during bull run
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@HelpedHope
Golding
7 months
This is pretty cool. Love how Delphi continues to make firsts
@asteroidxyz
Asteroid Protocol
7 months
For the first time in its 5-year history, anyone can now swap NFTs directly on @cosmoshub ! Try it at or learn more 🧵👇
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10 months
@jito_sol LST by @jito_labs just flipped @MarinadeFinance . Expecting this trend to continue, to infinity and beyond!
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29 days
This is the power of AlexDAO
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3 months
Roll call: if you are building on the Cosmos SDK, especially if you are an @eigenlayer AVS, please respond or DM me. Trying to do a market map. Thanks! Inspired by great conversation with @0xkaiserkarel
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@HelpedHope
Golding
11 months
Calling all founders: Friday, Nov. 3 @ 5pm CEST, @Delphi_Digital 's VC team will be hosting a pitch event in Amsterdam during @SolanaConf . If u r fundraising, come by! Location to be disclosed next week Sign-up form (please use docsend links):
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Golding
10 months
@SolanaConf @BoomBoxMarket @and_its_praneet Pitch 6: @MapMetrics . Is Google Maps ready for this challenger?
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8 months
CFT-20s and $ROIDS official marketplace are here! Why CFT-20s? Because like Bitcoin and Celestia, the Cosmos Hub does not have smart contract capabilities, making it an ideal environment for inscriptions. Gotta say, I spent all weekend playing on front-ends the community
@asteroidxyz
Asteroid Protocol
8 months
1/ The CFT-20 marketplace is now live at ! 👉 Swap $ROIDS or any of the 3k+ CFT-20s deployed on @cosmoshub 👉 Permissionless & non-custodial 👉 Flexible enough to expand to art/PFPs very, very soon! Let’s take a look 🧵👇
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Golding
7 months
congratulations to @ceterispar1bus on being @Delphi_Digital 's new Head of Research! Well earned, and well deserved. Excited to see what the research team publishes under his direction
@anildelphi
Anil Lulla
7 months
First, we're incredibly excited to announce @ceterispar1bus has been promoted to Head of Research Ceteris has published some of the best research in the space over the past two years & his work speaks for itself Please join me in giving him a huge congrats
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3 years
@anothercohen @pk_iv I did this while talking w jeff bezos at taco bell drive thru. He said I should get passive income and grow tomatoes for the rest of my life
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10 months
Thanks for participating and pitching us at the event last Friday. Excited to dig in and learn more! My colleagues and I at @Delphi_Digital are always available to speak with founders, especially when they are fundraising 🫡🫡
@BoomBoxJim
BoomBoxJim
10 months
Shout out @HelpedHope and @Delphi_Digital for an amazing pitch event Providing opportunities for some amazing solana tech and shaping the future 🫡
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9 months
Founders: What most sources on the internet, startup schools, & fundraising advisors don't say is that your deck needs to answer just 1 meta-question: "Why?" Why are you building? Why are you raising? Why are you the team that will succeed? The rest will sort itself out.
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Golding
1 month
3rd flight delayed to 1:30am. Anyone flying private from FL to NYC today or tomorrow ? I need to get to SBC
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3 years
@rleshner People: This is history in production
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@HelpedHope
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1 year
Excited for @Delphi_Digital to mentor dozens of startup founders tomorrow at my workshop on the "7 Steps to Becoming a VC Funded Startup" at the Only Possible on Solana hackathon. Topics covered: - Product Strategy - Marketing Strategy - Fundraising - Corporate Strategy
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Golding
3 years
@honam @RohunJauhar Says who? They created value, people were willing to pay them, there are no outstanding ethical or moral issues, so why not?
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@HelpedHope
Golding
7 months
This is awesome
@SquadsProtocol
Squads
7 months
1/ SquadsX is now fully compatible with @Streamflow_fi . Create token vesting plans, stream payments, or lock liquidity pool tokens from your Squads multisig.
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3 months
I’ve ( @Delphi_Ventures ) reserved several hours Thursday and Friday for pitches from founders at NY Tech Week. Please respond or DM me and we can set up a time
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@HelpedHope
Golding
10 months
going through 280 pre-seed and decks right now. please bear with me if I take a day to respond
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Golding
4 months
There are a few times when you meet founders that you know will change the world. @cysic_xyz is one of them
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@HelpedHope
Golding
5 months
Pretty sick
@SimkinStepan
Stepan - smart/acc
5 months
Casually, on a Tuesday, crossed the $20b mark for total assets secured across @SquadsProtocol v3 and v4
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Golding
7 months
Excited to share my learnings with all the founders in this hackathon Wednesday Feb 7 @8pm est in the Burnt discord!
@burnt_xion
XION
7 months
Want to learn about successfully raising VC funding? Catch @HelpedHope 's upcoming Abstractathon Workshop next week. 💡 Hackathon Demo to VC-Funded Startup 📅 Wednesday, Feb 7th, 8pm EST 📍 Main Stage ()
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@HelpedHope
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8 months
@rabbitx_io on top of the defillama 24 hour chart. Hyperliquid second dYdX third GMX fourth MUX fifth Vertex 6th Apex 7th Gains 8th Equation (never heard of this one, will dive deeper) 9th and Paradex 10th Quite interesting! Seems @rabbitx_io has been top 3 for a couple months
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@HelpedHope
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3 years
@DegenApeAcademy It isn't working???
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