Wild to see @MagicNewton distribute over $5M in $NEWT to the Kaito ecosystem today.
TVD about to break 9-digits while yappers and $KAITO stakers keep printing, with more high-quality projects like @peaq, @turtleclubhouse, @CreatorBid joining the leaderboard wars at accelerating speed.
InfoFi summer is just getting started - and @Punk9277 hasn’t even dropped the heavy hitters in the pipeline yet.
Great times ahead for anyone creating real content about real projects.
Had a long conversation with the @peaq founders today.
There’s a lot more coming than I expected. Not just exciting news in the pipeline, but also some genuinely new use cases the space hasn’t really seen before.
What’s also interesting: some serious players in the US are starting to take notice and are actively looking into it.
Mindshare around both DePIN and $PEAQ in the US is building surprisingly well and fast.
The first @xmaquinaDAO tranche sold out in 5 minutes.
The second tranche is already nearly 50% filled.
Amazing to see the hype building around getting exposure to the world’s hottest robotics companies - like Figure, Apptronik, and Neura Robotics - normally only accessible to the biggest and most prestigious investors.
1) Some of the biggest chads & most respected institutions in the space: @santiagoroel, @mdudas, @Shaughnessy119, @MessariCrypto
2) All of them are bullish on DePIN.
And I’m right there with them, even though I agree with @Melt_Dem: 9 out of 10 DePINs still have broken tokenomics.
But the thing is, that’s the easiest problem to fix.
What can’t be easily replicated is the powerful, bootstrapped real-world networks DePIN has already created - networks with the potential to disrupt entire industries.
I’m calling it now: DePIN Season 2.0 is right ahead of us.
This time with upgraded tokenomics and real founder commitment to value accrual.
Make it on-chain equity. Commit to distributed ownership.
Moonrock Capital is heading to New York next week for @Permissionless!
If you’re around - and you’re building something exciting, or you’re an early-stage founder looking for support - feel free to reach out to me or @cryptovlat.
We’d love to meet you.
Looking forward to one of the best conferences of the year, in what’s probably the greatest crypto capital in the world.
Robotics and physical AI are without a doubt the next “smartphone moment” of this century - a multi-trillion dollar opportunity in the making.
Yet for retail and most regular investors, getting direct exposure to this industry is nearly impossible. At best, you might catch a beta play like data DePINs or infrastructure bets.
That’s exactly what makes @xmaquinaDAO so unique - it’s democratizing direct access to some of the most prestigious deals in the space, including Figure AI, Apptronik, Unitree, and more.
You can think of the $DEUS token as a tokenized robotics ETF, fully on-chain.
They’re growing their community step-by-step through limited $DEUS offerings - the last one sold out in minutes.
The next one is launching next week, tied to their upcoming investment in another major robotics deal:
https://t.co/JGQ3wEmdVY
Obviously, Moonrock Capital is an investor and advisor here - so yes, I might be biased.
But in my opinion, this is easily one of the most interesting and direct crypto × robotics plays out there right now.
Robotics and physical AI are expected to grow explosively, with total market sizes projected to reach multiple trillions of dollars.
Now imagine what happens with @peaq if they’re even slightly successful in realizing their vision of becoming the global coordination layer for the machine economy - a world where billions of machines autonomously interact and generate real, on-chain economic value that goes far beyond what we can currently imagine.
Real robotic GDP on-chain, with $PEAQ as the native currency.
Sure, it’s ambitious - and there’s a long road ahead - but the bull case for peaq is literally beyond words or numbers.
What we need to take this industry to the next level, to achieve full adoption by both institutions and retail:
Patience.
Stablecoins have always been one of crypto’s greatest use cases. Yet despite being one of the simplest concepts, it still took nearly a decade for the Trojan horse to truly land.
So maybe it’s a bit unrealistic to think your favorite niche use cases - like AI agentic launchpads, restaking protocols, or tokenized InfoFi products - are going to hit the mainstream and see real-world adoption overnight.
This industry is here to stay, and it’s going to change the world in more ways than we can imagine.