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Head of Investments / Co-founder @MaelstromFund | Former Head of Corp Dev @BitMEX | @Wharton @Penn Alumnus | Not investment advice

https://t.co/oaAU10ASFI

Joined July 2019

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

Embarking on a new journey with @CryptoHayes ' family office @MaelstromFund to invest in infrastructure start-ups powering the next wave of decentralization // new models to monetize the internet. Actively deploying capital; Pre-seed thru Series A founders, please reach out.

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

11 months

This is literally public housing in Singapore.

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6 months

Update: @MaelstromFund is officially adopting @ethena_labs ' USDe as our reserve currency. [paying vendors, funding deals, etc.]

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8 months

Portfolio companies...*sniff* they grow up so fast

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Probably nothing👀

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9 months

Preparing for the next bull market.

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1 year

A first in crypto history - Almost every major global CeFi derivatives exchange is setting aside differences and getting together to back this new CeDeFi stablecoin primitive built by @leptokurtic_ / @ethena_labs , inspired and backed by @CryptoHayes .

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Ethena Labs

1 year

1/ Ethena is excited to announce our $6.5M seed round led by @dragonfly_xyz , with participation from @cryptohayes and major derivative exchanges The round is the first milestone in our mission to develop the first scalable stablecoin not dependent on the banking system

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1 year

Hit me up at Token2049 in Singapore this week. @MaelstromFund is throwing some awesome events.

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4 months

@CryptoHayes @ether_fi Worth also noting - unlike competitors (e.g. @RenzoProtocol , which depegged today) @ether_fi hasn't depegged because native withdrawals are enabled and hence users don't have to market sell in thin liquidity conditions. Stakers should stick to projects that keep them self:

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4 months

Join us in a couple of hours to talk all things BTC.

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4 months

Building on Bitcoin with @akshat_hk 🟧 Akshat is the Head of Investments at @MaelstromFund Join Akshat and other speakers today 👇

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The @pendle_fi homepage is basically a list of @MaelstromFund portcos [ @ether_fi , @ZircuitL2 , @ethena_labs ]. More such integrations to come as our portcos continue to TGE.

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3 months

First vacation in 2 yrs, back in studio to jam. Will perform at your next crypto event for free.

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1 year

@MacroMate8 They all work for Polygon. Most impressive BD function I’ve seen at scale in crypto.

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@PeterSchiff “These buyers only care about price.” Ah yes, because all those Gold ETFs investors out there aren’t investing because number goes up, they’re just admirers of yellow rock’s metallurgical properties 😂

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$ATH, one of our earliest portfolio companies and low key one of the most successful DePIN projects out there on a number of metrics, live and trading now

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5 months

10 years in, @BitMEX remains one of the only major CeFi exchanges to have never lost customer funds - up there with the likes of Coinbase. [Most others, from Binance to OKX to Upbit, have lost customer funds to hacks, exploits, etc.]

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4 months

One smart hombre @sreeramkannan @eigenlayer . Congrats on mainnet launch.

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10 months

The first liquid re-staking token on @eigenlayer hits mainnet on Nov 6th (courtesy of our portfolio company @ether_fi ). Mark your calendars. 1) Stake with , 2) get eETH, and then 3) generate further yield elsewhere - all the while, retaining control of

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Delegated Staking Protocol

@ether_fi

ether.fi

10 months

After a tremendous amount of hard work by the whole team, we are excited to announce that we are shipping our LST eETH! eETH is the first liquid restaking token on @eigenlayer and the only LST where stakers get to control their keys🛅 🧵👇1/9

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5 months

We've made two venture investments since this announcement, both funded in @ethena_labs ' USDe.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

6 months

Update: @MaelstromFund is officially adopting @ethena_labs ' USDe as our reserve currency. [paying vendors, funding deals, etc.]

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Been an incredible pleasure to be on the ground floor of these experiments trying to rearchitect foundational rails/infra of human civilization - some of which have been largely unchanged since the age of the 15th century Medicis. Like the early internet days in the ‘80s and

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Excited to join our friends at Ethereal Ventures in backing Khalani, which handles the buildout and incentivization of solver networks on behalf of intent-based dApps [comparable to the proposer/builder separation model, but for intents]

@khalani_network

Khalani Network 🦾🤖

@khalani_network

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We're excited to announce our $2.5M Seed Round led by @etherealvc to unleash the full potential of intents with our decentralized solver platform! This milestone will help us expand our team, push forward R&D, and bring Khalani to full-scale production.

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11 months

Revealing our plans for global domination

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Maelstrom

11 months

Snippet from last week’s Medici event, with @CryptoHayes and @akshat_hk laying out Maelstrom’s vision for this coming cycle [photo cred: @jacobkxyz ]

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Agree. Non-fungible DePIN infra should theoretically be harder to build, but more difficult to replicate / substitute and hence more valuable.

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Nils Pihl

1 month

I just realized something about #DePIN that I think many are overlooking. 🧵

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Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

Thanks man, highly appreciate it. We’re just getting started.

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Mark Jeffrey

4 months

Checking out the @CryptoHayes @MaelstromFund portfolio ... it's quite good. Big fan / user of Squid -- and Pendle and Ethena have been recent, huge new crypto hits. This guy is on to stuff. Going watch this portfolio more carefully from now on.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

@blknoiz06 We don’t disagree- happy to exchange notes on Nillion

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4 months

What’s with all the FUD? My visit to Lake Dubai has been beautiful so far.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

5 months

Proud to say that we've indeed been fucking shit up (in a good way)

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Maelstrom's 1-year anniversary this month

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Akshat_Maelstrom

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Just endowed a scholarship at my alma mater @Penn [for first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds] in what is Penn’s first scholarship donation ever to be made in cryptocurrency.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

Come. @AugieIlag @tomhschmidt @0xWangarian @lalleclausen

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Excited to welcome @etherary to the Maelstrom team. Give him a follow, you'll be seeing his name more often.

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1 year

"Not your keys, not your crypto." Too many have knowingly or unknowingly given up access to their private keys to both centralized and "decentralized" ETH staking services. Think @coinbase , @krakenfx , @binance , @LidoFinance , etc. They are making BANK off of your #ETH , while you

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BitMEX

1 year

With the Shanghai-Capella (“Shapella”) upgrade slated for later today, what might the future mean for proto-decentralised protocols like @LidoFinance ? You can read the latest CTD now: cc @CryptoHayes @akshat_hk

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1 year

Back-to-back deal hunting @ 1) Stanford Blockchain Conference, 2) Korea Blockchain Week and 3) Token2049 Singapore starting next week. HMU.

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@marinebharat Fair, but you do have to give credit to @Dev_Fadnavis for unshackling @AshwiniBhide in the buildout of Metro 3 (among other key transport infra projects being championed by the BJP) after it was stalled for 2 years by the nepochild coalition under @OfficeofUT .

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

Chatting “Building on Bitcoin” with @CaitlinLong_ and @RuleBasedInvest tomorrow. Get your free pass:

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@ALEXLabBTC

ALEX 🟧 THE Finance Layer on Bitcoin

1 year

Don't miss the Building on #Bitcoin Summit this coming Wednesday, April 19 10:10AM EST - Banks Are Collapsing. Bitcoin Isn't. @RuleBasedInvest on why banks always fail w/ @CaitlinLong_ & @akshat_hk 10:55AM EST - sBTC Discussion @RuleBasedInvest on why sBTC is essential to

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As someone who has been placing VC-style multi-year bets in crypto since 2013 (and isn't a technical chart reading day-trader), my two cents: If you've been making well thought out, long-term thesis-driven bets at attractive entry valuations - relax. Seriously. However, if

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I moved to Asia 5 years ago. One reason why: In Asia, some places like Vietnam or India are coming out of decades of war, strife and poverty yet I hear and feel optimism all over…vs. many countries in Europe, for example, where they’ve experienced unprecedented prosperity for

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1 year

@OisinKyne from @ObolNetwork ( @MaelstromFund ’s first portfolio company) talking about how DVT is decentralizing single points of failure in Ethereum.

@TrustlessState

DavidHoffman.eth 🦇🔊

@TrustlessState

1 year

DVT “Squad Staking” via @ObolNetwork gives ETH validators resiliency via client redundancy inside the squad Cc @OisinKyne at @EDCON2023

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1 year

2023 crypto VC holy grail: consumer-facing, AI-powered scaling infra deals. Bonus points for platforms that use zero knowledge proofs to secure data storage behind a tokengated DAO. [Ideally, built upon account abstraction.]

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Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

A nice chat with friends

@ether_fi

ether.fi

4 months

Our event at @token2049 with some hard hitting alpha. Fireside chat with @MikeSilagadze and @CryptoHayes Panel with @sparkdotfi @gauntlet_xyz @ethena_labs . Moderated by @akshat_hk 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Talking about the ups and dunes of crypto investing in Dubai

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4 months

Key parts of my April 2023 thesis, back during the bear market and when @ether_fi was a wee little pre-revenue start-up, have been taking shape.

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Arthur Hayes

1 year

I got bags and they are full of decentralisation!!! "Shapella's Show" is a think piece by @MaelstromFund 's head of investments all about $ETH staking.

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6 months

When is Dune 3 coming out?

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4 months

Come join Arthur, me and the extended @MaelstromFund fam today for this wholesome get-together today

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Arthur Hayes

4 months

The Hat Stays On. Choose Rich, see y’all tonight at the Surf Club. Doors open at 5pm, get there early cause sometimes the door is a bit of a shitshow at the clerb.

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One of Maelstrom's earliest portcos, we've been talking about for over a year. Have you been paying attention? Now might be a good time

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1 year

👋🏽 LSDeFi Summer

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Liquid staking solutions now have more TVL than DEXs: DefiLlama

Lido is still the top liquid staking solution in terms of TVL, with Coinbase Wrapped Staked Ether (CBETH) coming in second.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

Yet another one of our investments has become #1 largest dAPP on a network

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Juice

4 months

The Juice is starting to get loose.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

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Send us your favorite dead DEX. 1) Why did you love it; 2) Why did it fail; 3) We might be interested in acquiring the assets and rebooting it (we've got creative ideas).

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Maelstrom's first portco to exit via acquisition. Congrats to Alan and team:

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Eigen Labs acquires Rio Network, opens LRT code

The Eigen Foundation is acquiring Rio Network’s intellectual rights and will open-source its liquid restaking token as a reference implementation in the EigenLayer ecosystem.

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Eigen Labs

2 months

Accelerating Open Innovation: Eigen Labs ∞ Rio Network Eigen Labs is excited to announce the acquisition of the @RioRestaking team to accelerate our mission of creating an open, verifiable cloud. The Rio team has a combined 75+ years of crypto experience and a proven track

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Akshat_Maelstrom

10 months

"Lido Finances approves proposal to enable Obol decentralized staking module". Congrats to @MaelstromFund 's first portfolio company.

@Obol_Collective

Obol Collective

@Obol_Collective

10 months

Thanks to @TheBlock__ for covering the news of the approval of the @LidoFinance Simple DVT module!🙏💪

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Pre-revenue founders who val-gauged earlier are regretting it now. Conundrum: 1) Pressure to raise at higher vals; 2) Insufficient traction to justify it; 3) Flat/downrounds signal poorly to new prospective investors, and demotivate existing investors/employees.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

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Landed in Vietnam for the weekend, looks like crypto adoption has really taken off here

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

Crypto license, now this…Elon trying to collect the building blocks for a non-China WeChat?

@elonmusk

Elon Musk

1 year

Video & audio calls coming to X: - Works on iOS, Android, Mac & PC - No phone number needed - X is the effective global address book That set of factors is unique.

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1 year

Testing out the latest Ponzi. Who would have thought simple speculative pyramid schemes could be so fun. Hit me up, let’s see where this goes

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

Excited to back @ionprotocol 's @ChundaMcCain and @junebug_0831 in their mission to expand use cases, liquidity and the capital efficiency of nonfungible staked/restaked ETH assets. Hyper-financialization is fucking dope.

@ionprotocol

Ion Protocol

1 year

We're thrilled to announce our $2M pre-seed round, co-led by @PortalVentures and @SevenXVentures , joined by a stellar group of investors including @banklessvc , @MaelstromFund , @alekslarsen , @sassal0x , @RyanWatkins , and more in our journey to empower stakers and re-stakers.

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4 months

“And his money he cannot eat” - Karl Marx (Das Kapital)

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1 year

@mrjasonchoi Web3 cuts out rent-seekers in the middle, who get paid to broker trust, thus making markets (i.e. human coordination) more efficient.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

3 months

Excited to back Shogun's efforts to minimize costs and improve trader UX with intent-centric order execution. [Our first foray into the intents space]

@shogunfi

Shogun 将軍

3 months

Excited to announce the close of our $6.9m seed round led by @polychaincap & @daofive ! 🐡🚀 This funding marks the beginning of our campaign to redefine the way traders interact with web3. Read more: 1/69

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1 year

It begins. In decentralization we trust.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

@RyanSAdams Having been through 2014-2017; 2018-2020; and March 2020…I don’t really think we’re even in the winter yet. More opaque, unaccountable CeFi could still break.

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11 months

Fun times with @balajis @CryptoHayes @nillionnetwork

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Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

Men in this industry, treat your colleagues with respect. After speaking with my female (and male) peers, it's becoming clear that the behavior described below is just the tip of the iceberg across this space. [From here on out, we're expanding the 'character assessment' part of

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Jiwoo Jun👩‍🍳

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When he grabbed my waist and pulled towards him even after I said NO and pushed him away, I knew that this will happen one day. Thank you for speaking up ser.

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1 year

Crypto in a nutshell

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*sniff* they grow up so fast. Also this is a dope product.

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Nucleus

10 days

The team from @ionprotocol is excited to announce a total fundraise of $7M, led by @gumicryptos and 90+ additional supporters The funding was completed to introduce Nucleus—the default yield provider for networks across the crypto ecosystem ⬇️

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Akshat_Maelstrom

3 months

Come dial in tonight to hear us talk all things DeFi

@SCB10X_OFFICIAL

SCB 10X

@SCB10X_OFFICIAL

3 months

Join us for “Init Capital & Revolutionizing DeFi Money Market with Liquidity Hooks” at #REDeFiNETOMORROW2024 Featuring @tascha_panpan of @InitCapital_ & @akshat_hk of @MaelstromFund Free ticket:

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That time @BuchiOkoro_ gifted me a painting at the @token2049 afterparty in Dubai. Thanks man.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

11 months

Great chat with @Rising_Cap on the origins of @MaelstromFund and what we're focused on

@Rising_Cap

Rising Capital

11 months

1/ 🎙 The latest #Hashtalk episode is Live, featuring @akshat_hk from @MaelstromFund , the family office of @CryptoHayes ! 🚀 Are you ready to dive in?🔥 #itunes #Podcast #Bitmex #Spotify

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Akshat_Maelstrom

3 months

If only there was some new tech they could architect in to differentiate themselves…

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

Can confirm, incredible experience.

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@CoinDesk

CoinDesk

1 year

#Zuzalu , a 2-month, invite-only gathering of 200 people in Montenegro, featured official sessions on zero-knowledge proofs, cold plunges in the Adriatic and the chance to get near Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin @cryptauxmargaux reports

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

I'm not even going to pretend like I understand why in this bloodbath my latest degen $ator is up 28%

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Akshat_Maelstrom

2 months

Dear crypto: See below how a professional VC fund issues capital calls. Gradually as needed, rather than 100% upfront only to sit on your capital and do nothing with it (other than destroy everyone's IRR).

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Akshat_Maelstrom

11 months

Just landed in SG, where Grab (the Uber of SE Asia) has integrated with web3. Curious to see where this goes.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

@BanklessHQ NFTfi assets that actually have intrinsic value e.g. @ether_fans

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

@AukiLabs is building transformational infra. [Video below is just one example of a low-hanging-fruit application] The stack underlying it all is a "collaborative spatial computing protocol" that allows for experiences requiring greater precision and reach than GPS (e.g. shared

@AukiLabs

Auki Labs

1 year

Imagine leaving invisible, password protected notes that only your staff can see. Now it's real.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

3 months

Summary of how money works

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Akshat_Maelstrom

7 months

Excited to back @squidrouter , which is enabling dApps to easily augment product offerings to offer end users one-click, high-speed, secure cross-chain transactions. Incredible traction so far, with >$1B in trading volume facilitated so far within 1 year of launch.

@squidrouter

squid

7 months

We are proud to announce that Squid has raised $4m in a strategic funding round led by Polychain Capital and backed by leading funds and angels! We invite you all to join us in celebrating the exciting news on the very day Squid launched last year 💫

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1 year

Worldcoin's (implied) FDV > the market caps of most profitable publicly traded companies you can think of under the sun. E.g. $WLD just overtook BioNTech, which made $8B+ in EBITDA last year and is sitting on $13B+ of cash. Who's about to become whose exit liquidity here?

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1 year

The world can change dramatically in a very short period of time. From a 1994 NYT article discussing how "Made in Japan" used to = cheap, shoddy manufacturing:

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11 months

@MacroMate8 Handful of us are doing a little post-TOKEN2049 HK get together. HMU.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

@APompliano India's 'Greater Nicobar Development Plan' = an Indian Hawaii (full-stack defense, trade + tourism infra on one of its largest islands) right at the Strait of Malacca. [Significance: 1) India can choke China of oil supplies in a war; 2) India can compete with Sri Lanka's ports]

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

for the pseudonymous workplace (zkp-based payroll/compliance infrastructure) so you can legally hire anons and pseudons. Genius.

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Deel - Your forever people platform

No HR platform can handle everything for everyone, until now. Deel is the only truly global platform that works for your entire team, no matter where they are.

@no_doxx

Noxx

1 year

Our Pseudonymous Talent Profile feature allows individuals to make their own pseudonymous accounts to showcase their skills, experience, and value to future employers. Profiles are beneficial for those seeking opportunities without jeopardizing their full-time jobs. 1/9 🧵

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

10 months

Telegram Premium = game changer. Wish I had known about it earlier.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

I want to love these low-tax libertarian hubs so much…but then they engage in this kind of nonsense

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

@sunnydecree $LBR

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Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

Worth a skim. The crypto-friendliest generation yet is coming of age, rich, depressed AF and addicted to their phones/memes/gaming/trading. Solid demand-side macro tailwinds.

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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich

Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were baby-boomers

www.economist.com

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

10 months

Nostalgic

@Tradermayne

Mayne

10 months

“Dad what was trading on Bitmex like?”

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

PSA: Stop indiscriminately airdrop farm hopping from protocol to protocol. Be even just slightly judicious - look what happened to those to migrated from to Renzo. Many leverage farmers now rekt (>$340MM of liquidations).

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Akshat_Maelstrom

6 months

🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 the more beliebers in @ethena_labs vision for a new kind of stablecoin the merrier

@BinanceLabs

Binance Labs Fund

6 months

We're excited to announce the first batch of S6 Incubation projects that we've made an investment in! 🔸 @ethena_labs 🔸 @nfprompt 🔸 @shogunfi Find out more about the projects, listed alphabetically below👇

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Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

Our bar in Hong Kong is trying to accept BTC/ETH/etc for a conference promotion this week. What's the best POS app to quickly/easily spin this up?

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 month

Trump’s VP = a 39-year-old self-made venture capitalist, US Marine, author and Senator with a Yale law degree who grew up in a poor broken rust belt household. Democrats have lost the plot (and my vote) this cycle.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

Just landed for #stanfordblockchainweek . If you’re building cool early-stage projects, we’re coming for you. We will find you.

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

9 months

@mairal Just in time for

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India is seeing a massive aviation boom

New airports, hundreds of aircraft and millions of new passengers are on their way

www.economist.com

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

11 months

Excited to work with @eliasimos & team

@MaelstromFund

Maelstrom

11 months

Check out one of our latest portcos @ratedw3b , offering mission-critical observability for node operations that will underpin a generation of new staking-related business models.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

6 months

Parachuting into #ETHDenver today

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

Fun

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DePIN Scan - The DePIN Explorer

DePIN Scan is the explorer for DePIN crypto projects. What is DePIN? DePIN stands for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks. DePIN scan for IoTeX, Solona, Polygon and Ethereum.

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

11 months

Rug-burned by my formerly favorite degen play @LybraFinance . [Missed the v1 -> v2 migration window, all my remaining tokens burned]. Feeling cold inside. Seeking recommendations for my next degen pls.

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@LybraFinance

Lybra Finance ⚖️

11 months

📢 LBR Migration phase has officially concluded! 🔥 We've seen a total of 2,065,967 LBR that didn't migrate from V1 to V2 before the deadline Note: These tokens are subject to being burnt from the circulating supply, pending DAO votes ⚔️ Lybra DAO launch is right around the

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

@ASvanevik Hmm, but a better comparison would be cities. (I’m sure roughly the trend would still hold, but doesn’t make sense to compare entire mixed economies with a single city).

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

4 months

TOKEN2049 Dubai thoughts - Riding the highs after the rains cleared collectively with everyone was almost euphoric (in contrast to the lows/chaos of before). Definitely contributed to more heartfelt and honest conversations about projects, trends, etc. I.e. Less shilling, more

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 month

An entire generation of "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" 20- 30-somethings is up for grabs, and the Democrats are losing them.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

6 months

Going to deploy this fat stack of cash on @ethena_labs . Bull market is on.

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Akshat_Maelstrom

1 year

@jasonklau @twobitidiot @VivekGRamaswamy Watch this to understand why he’s one of the strongest candidates to run for President in most of our lifetimes:

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Vivek Ramaswamy Town Hall | PBD Podcast

For the first time, the PBD Podcast will host a Town Hall for a presidential candidate. Vivek Ramaswamy will join Patrick Bet-David to answer a variety of Pa...

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

8 months

2003 = the first gold ETF launches. 2013 = gold's market cap was $8T, with $0.1T (<2%) held by gold ETFs. Bitcoin ETFs' first decade will dramatically outperform this. However, meaningful inflows will take time; releasing the products is just the first step. Let's not get ahead

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@akshat_hk

Akshat_Maelstrom

3 years

@anarquiahoje @APompliano Yeah, just a little fluctuation guys.

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