functionSPACE has raised $1.7M in pre-seed funding to build the economic primitive for pricing numerical outcomes, led by @Maven11Capital and @blockwall_vc with participation from @smape_capital.
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You could move to New York City.
Rent an 852-square-foot apartment for $5,503 a month.
Blow $500 on three “first dates” a week and somehow remain single for six years.
Finally meet someone you like, then discover they’re “not really looking for anything serious right now.”
Get a master’s degree so you can qualify for an internship.
Apply to 147 jobs, get 93 automated rejections, and finally find an “entry-level” position requiring five years of experience.
Eventually land a six-figure job and still need a roommate to make rent.
Pay federal income tax, New York State income tax, AND New York City income tax because apparently living there is a three-level subscription.
Learn that a “quiet neighborhood” means the sirens only come by every 20 minutes.
Pay $27 every day for a sandwich (no sides) because the place has exposed brick and a handwritten menu.
Take the subway to work every morning and develop the useful skill of pretending not to notice absolutely anything happening around you.
Spend 45 minutes traveling three miles.
Carry your groceries home six blocks because parking near your apartment is more of a philosophical concept than an actual possibility.
Have “owning a washer and dryer” become one of your primary measures of generational wealth.
Walk past a mountain of trash bags on your way to a restaurant with a Michelin star.
Tell your friends back home you don’t need a car while spending $46 on an Uber because the subway is delayed again.
Go to Central Park when you want to remember what trees look like.
Spend your twenties telling everyone you could NEVER live anywhere else.
Then one day you visit your cousin in Iowa.
He has a house with four bedrooms, a garage, a yard, two cars, four kids, and somehow pays less than you do for the apartment where your refrigerator touches your couch.
But hey.
The NYC bagels are incredible.
genuinely one of the most impressive breakthroughs i have seen in such a long time
super excited about optimum and what it means for ethereum and beyond
the team behind it are some of the most impressive innovators i have met too which serious pedigree
A lot of people saw the @Securitize listing this week and filed it under "another crypto ticker." I think that's the wrong read.
The facts first: @NYSE debut via SPAC ($SECZ), @BlackRock and @MorganStanley behind it, $400M raised. A raise of that size on this story is the market pricing in the institutionalization of tokenization. But what I keep coming back to isn't the listing itself. It's that they issued tokenized versions of their own shares on @solana and @avax simultaneously, with the issuer and the regulator inside the perimeter. Not a pilot but a live integration of public equity and blockchain rails.
Pair it with @OndoFinance tokenizing BlackRock's IVV ETF and Micron the same week, under an SEC-defined custodial model, and the pattern is hard to miss. The value proposition is shifting from crypto-native assets to the blockchain as the more efficient ledger for traditional securities. Tokenized equities just crossed $2bn, up roughly 150% YTD - credits to the amazing dashboard of @RWA_xyz.
What I'll be watching now: how SECZ's on-chain shares trade against the NYSE ticker. That's the real test of whether we get the liquidity and settlement advantages the tech promises. If price discovery stays synced and settlement is instant, the incentive for other public firms to follow suit becomes undeniable.
The same logic is behind our investment in @Spiko_finance at @blockwall_vc, pointed at the less glamorous asset: cash. If cash means money market funds, it's the smaller pool on paper, roughly $13tn against $125tn of listed equities. On-chain, the picture inverts. Tokenized T-bills and MMFs already sit around $16bn, about half of all tokenized RWA. Cash is where tokenization has product-market fit today.
Spiko issues AMF-approved UCITS money market funds (short-term T-Bills, custody at @CreditAgricole) as tokenized shares. Daily yield, daily liquidity, subscribe and redeem in USDC or EURC on @ethereum, @StellarOrg, @base and @solana, usable as collateral in DeFi. In practice it's a CFO's treasury account that happens to settle on-chain.
Roughly €1.7bn sits on the platform today, and barely anyone talks about it. I bet that's about to change.
Equities got the headline this week. Cash has been doing the volume all along. Very proud of @pahyppolite and the entire Spiko team of what's been achieved and very excited for what's to come.
Launch perps. Own the fees.
We're partnering with @Kinetiq_xyz to bring the first HIP-3 launchpad to life!
https://t.co/9v50aQWk6Y will list directly on Kinetiq's @Markets_xyz exchange, becoming the exclusive Co-Deployer.
More details below.