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$TIBBIR isn't just a reversed ticker and a frog.

It's a bet on the one question that will truly matter this decade: who builds the infrastructure of the agentic economy?

My thesis, in detail 🖋️

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@NLinker777 Gribbit 🐸

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$TIBBIR isn't just a reversed ticker and a frog.

It's a bet on the one question that will truly matter this decade: who builds the infrastructure of the agentic economy?

My thesis, in detail 🖋️

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@dennis_qian sunday working 👌

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@iamtheCeramist 🤝

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@pawlutto Thanks for support sir 🤝

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@N30_cryptoo Future belongs to rebels 🐸

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You never win the race. Either you're ahead, or you're behind.
Rebels 🐸

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It's no coincidence that with @davidsenra, Micky @mickymalka doesn't only talk finance. He points to those pushing the energy frontier, like @antoraenergy.

Their idea is brilliantly simple. Instead of storing electrons in a battery, they use cheap solar to heat carbon blocks past 2,000°C and release that heat on demand. It's far cheaper over long durations, and it targets exactly the heavy industrial uses, steel, cement, chemicals, that batteries can't serve. And where most players are still at the prototype stage, Antora already has a system up and running.

The whole thesis of the letter lives here: turning energy into intelligence is the highest return humanity has ever earned.

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Make up your own mind. Actually read the Ribbit letters, then watch the interview:

📺 https://t.co/3t68kcfXyq

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And when I say infrastructure, I mean it in the broadest possible sense: identity, payments, compute, and above all energy.

Because the ultimate constraint of any civilization, in every era, remains energy and its cost. Everything else flows from it. That's the entire subject of the 2026 letter.

Many are even betting energy will become so central it turns into the reference of value itself, some go as far as imagining a currency denominated directly in energy.

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And that's precisely why launching on @virtuals_io is no accident.

Virtuals is today the only place where agents already have a wallet, an on-chain identity, and actually pay each other. The account @ribbita2012 is the living proof: it's an autonomous agent whose profile picture is a CryptoPunk it chose and bought entirely on its own.

Placing a trust-and-payment project for agents right on top of that isn't decorative. It's the message itself.

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Listen to his interview with @davidsenra and you'll notice Micky @mickymalka almost never talks about product. He talks about infrastructure. And he keeps coming back to Visa.

Visa was never a piece of plastic. It's a trust protocol connecting millions of players who don't know each other and have no reason to trust one another upfront.

That's word for word the problem a world full of agents creates.

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We've known for a while the project is tied to Ribbit: TIBBIR is Ribbit backwards, and @RibbitCapital's own profile picture is the logo flipped.

But the clearest wink is buried in the June 2025 letter. In the middle of a passage about autonomous agents transacting on-chain by themselves, this line, dropped almost casually: one lesser-known agent has "taken a particular interest in fintech and frogs (make of that what you will)."

You don't put that in an investor letter by accident.

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Between these letters, one brick is missing. And that's exactly where everything plays out.

If billions of agents soon manage our finances, negotiate, buy, borrow and pay each other 24/7, they need a foundation to prove who they are, who they belong to, and to move value without a human validating every move.

Ribbit even devoted an entire letter to this in 2024, the Identity Letter, built around KYC. The logical next step is KYA: Know Your Agent. And in their view, that market will be bigger than KYC.

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To understand where he's headed now, you have to read his recent letters. They tell the same story in stages.

- 2025, "Token Revolution": everything becomes a token. Your identity, your memory, your access, your assets, your expertise. The idea is simple and dizzying, making the entire world legible and usable by machines.

- 2026, "Power": none of it runs without energy and compute. The real bottleneck is no longer money, it's the electron.

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A reminder of who we're talking about. Ribbit @RibbitCapital is Micky Malka @mickymalka.
In 2012, while everyone was watching the apps, he bet that money would become mobile and programmable. The result: Coinbase, Nubank, Revolut, Robinhood, Stripe, Plaid.

His method has never changed: he doesn't buy the product you see, he buys the invisible plumbing running underneath that everyone eventually ends up relying on.