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Playbook · Oct 15, 2026How to write grant milestones that get approved (with examples)
Most grant applications are decided in the milestone section. The thesis says what you believe and the team section says who you are, but the mileston…
Thesis · Oct 15, 2026Grant or pre-seed? How early web3 and AI-agent teams should choose in 2026
Early teams building in web3 or on AI agents usually meet two kinds of first money: a grant that pays for a piece of work, and a pre-seed round that b…
Grants · Sep 30, 2026ZK infrastructure grants in 2026: who funds provers, zkVMs and tooling
Most lists of “ZK grants” are lists of every grant program in crypto. That does not help a team building a prover, a zkVM or a circuit library, becaus…
Playbook · Sep 30, 2026Applying to several grant programs at once: what is allowed and how to do it cleanly
Founders ask us two versions of the same question: “Am I allowed to apply to several grant programs at once?” and “Will it look bad if I do?” In gener…
Grants · Sep 28, 2026Where on-chain AI agent builders actually get funded in 2026
Ask where an on-chain AI agent can get funded and you usually get a list of every grant program in crypto. That is not a map. Many of those programs w…
Playbook · Sep 28, 2026Idea-stage web3 funding: what you can raise before you have a product
“Can I raise with just an idea?” is the question we hear most, and the honest answer is: some money, from a few specific places, for a specific purpos…
Grants · Sep 27, 2026Your grant got rejected. Here is the 14-day playbook to get funded anyway
A rejection from a grant committee usually contains one line of substance, and that line is rarely about your idea. Most of the declined applications …
Thesis · Sep 8, 2026Agent summer is over. The stack is consolidating.
Two years ago every deck had an agent. This year most of those tokens are dead — and that's the healthiest thing that could happen to the space. The e…
Note · Sep 1, 2026Why a venture fund hosts poker nights
We added a poker section to this site, so here's the story. For two years the best deal conversations we had didn't happen at conferences — they happe…
Playbook · Aug 12, 2026Fourteen TGEs later: timing beats everything
We've now taken fourteen projects from idea to token through our launchpad. The single biggest lesson isn't about tokenomics or exchanges — it's timin…
Thesis · Aug 26, 2026Why we're all-in on on-chain AI agents
Every cycle has one narrative that turns out to be more than a narrative. We think this one is autonomous, on-chain AI agents — software that doesn't …
Playbook · Jul 15, 2026Inside the launchpad: idea to TGE in 90 days
Ninety days, idea to token. People assume that number is marketing. It isn't — it's a constraint we impose on ourselves, because momentum is the scarc…
Case · Jun 3, 2026RepoSwap: how we built a $3.4M raise
RepoSwap ($REPX) is the clearest example of what full-cycle actually means. It started as an idea in a first call and reached a listing nine weeks lat…
Thesis · Nov 18, 2025The DeFAI thesis: agents that move capital
DeFAI is where two of our core beliefs meet: that autonomous agents are the cycle's defining tech, and that DeFi is still the most honest market for s…
Playbook · Jul 2, 2025Tokenomics that survive the first 90 days
Most tokens don't die from a bad idea. They die from a launch structure that guaranteed sellers would overwhelm buyers in the first three months. The …
Note · Mar 14, 2025Why we stay private
We have no public Telegram channel, no paid callers, no influencer rotation. People in crypto find that strange. We think it's the most rational thing…
Playbook · Oct 9, 2024Grants over hype: funding ideas before product
We started writing small, no-strings checks at the idea stage because the best founders we met were stuck one step before the step a normal VC funds. …
Thesis · May 21, 2024Our first on-chain AI-agent bets
Before ‘AI agents’ was a category with a ticker, it was a handful of weird experiments that most people dismissed as toys. We spent 2024 funding the t…
Note · Sep 5, 2023Founding ZK Prime: a private circle for builders
ZK Prime started in 2023 the way most good things in crypto do: a small group of operators frustrated with how capital was being allocated, deciding t…
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