mrjasonchoi

You say stablecoin is the killer use case in crypto but can’t name how many types of USD stablecoins there are? Don’t you think that’s a little weird?

If all of crypto shuts down for a day - all blocks stop propagating, all exchanges offline - what happens?

Turning into a macro perma-bear for tradfi bros is like turning into a BTC-maxi for crypto bros

"I am launching a stablecoin for DeFAI memecoin agent lanchpad my distribution strategy is paying KOLs on X and we are currently raising a pre-seed which is 5x oversubscribed at $80m FDV from 4 Tier-3 crypto VC funds one of which I am an LP in and we are in talks with multiple L1 BD teams for partnerships and we have more employees than paying users.

Here is a 15 minute call slot at 4 am your time to learn about me and you have 12 hours to make a decision."

VCs have piled billions into robots.

For decades, besides fancy demos there has been little to show for it.

This is going to change soon.

Why?

1. Actuators, sensors, and vision etc are much cheaper and reliable now.

2. AI is much more advanced; robots can now see, plan, and act without tele-operation.

3. Simulation has improved drastically in the past 2 years. Robots can rain in rich, physics‑accurate sims.

4. Geopolitics is driving it: Labor shortages + tech rivalry = urgency. US and China will lead the race.

5. Money is here (again): Billion‑dollar bets will continue

⚠️So the important question…

How to bet on this besides buying into (expensive) robotics companies?

A few peripherals that seem under-explored + tackle massive problems in robotics are:

1. Data bottlenecks: Not enough data + demos = poor generalization. (DePin could solve this)

2. Walled gardens: Closed platforms block innovation (Bittensor-style development could be interesting)

3. Latency limits: Edge compute is still catching up (again, potential crypto element)

4. Public trust: Safety + job fears = deployment drag.

5. Hardware gaps: Durability and battery life still weak

Over the past year, @tangent_xyz has been exploring ways that crypto or distributed systems can accelerate this future, particularly in the first three.

We’ve put about $2M of capital to work so far and expect to do much more.

If you are working to tackle any of the above challenges (with or without crypto), I’d love to chat!

Crypto bros be like this meta that meta but have you meta woman

Excited to live in the age of AI upending all industries, crypto going mainstream, and Apple making transparent icons

Never ask a woman her age
or a crypto VC their DPI

Hyperliquid is refreshingly healthy for this crypto cycle (2022- ).

Nothing they do is a secret: ship a reliable and performant product users use + actually make money as a product + be obsessed about channeling value back to token so investors reap rewards.

This is how cycle runners were made before the market turned tiresomely cynical, as opposed to current PvP new memecoins that fall out of relevance in 2 hours

Veo 3 is truly mindblowing, though every step forward for AI models and half-jokes about "entire batch of startups getting killed overnight" make it clearer that giant incumbents are becoming more entrenched.

World is cascading towards centralization and all the efficiencies but also pitfalls that come with it.

Decentralization has narrow commercial angles, but needs to exist for the world to not become dangerously fragile.

If any of you get kidnapped because of @coinbase leak, channeling Caesar may be your best course of action

If you are building a zero-knowledge KYC platform this is probably your one moment to shine before people stop caring again in 48 hours

FOMO the corporate clients that are looking to win users from @coinbase into onboarding, use the attention to raise, make it a new industry norm

Crypto will be a much better place if you do

First: “Some VCs are causing problematic structural issues in crypto”

Then: “All VCs are scammers and everything VCs touch is trash”

Then: “You’re better off trusting me and buying my bags, down with VCs”

Now: “Thanks for the exit liquidity dumbass”

There’s the game and the meta-game

Game = advancing trustless tech and an anti-dystopian future through blockchains

Meta-game = speculating on the future value of assets related to and enabled by this tech

You blow up / miss generational wins when you let your views on one influence the other

$500k for 10 founders every year until I run out of money

No matter market conditions

Preference for crypto-enabled apps

Vertical agnostic as long as frontier tech

@tangent_xyz

How crypto bulls felt the past 7 days

If you’ve been investing in crypto for more than 5 years, what is your portfolio CAGR over the entire period?

For people who are still here: what are the biggest issues with crypto as an industry today? What solution would you suggest?

Settling a discussion/ debate.

“You can’t time the market” is an age old adage in tradfi.

Is there a reason for why it may / may not have applied to crypto up to now?

22 year old creator of AI agent project Zerebro allegedly took his own life...

Only followed the project in the early days in Jan, but seemed like he was genuinely trying to build something novel but was constantly attacked online.

There is a fine line between holding founders building in public accountable and attacking someone personally when token prices go down.

CT has been traumatized so many times by charlatans and scammers that it often errs on the side of crossing that line. This has made crypto less welcoming to experimentation and more toxic in general. I've heard some horror stories about anon mobs from founders I deem earnest.

If this is what I think it is, this has resulted in the death of a kid who likely had a bright future. Perhaps some soul searching is warranted for those who still care about more than just making a quick buck here.

P.S. if your first reaction is to try to trade/profit off of this from tokenizing someone's suicide, just block me already