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Partners to crypto builders since 2013

[Blockchain Capital @bcap]

Early-stage crypto founders often go beyond building products, setting the rules for entirely new ecosystems of social and financial incentives. Over our 12 years of investing in these visionaries, we’ve learned to look for the key qualities that define what it means to be a true founder.

Read more from BCAP Partner @yuan_han_li ↓

[Yuan Han Li @yuan_han_li]

https://t.co/bo60YKytcM

[World Chain @world_chain_]

Welcome to the World One residency!

[anay @anay_sim]

One of my bull cases for AI is that it will make uniquely human interactions 100X more valuable.
- Ithaca acquiring Bumble
- Longtime Endeavor/WME talent agency leader Ari Emanuel going "all in on live" with his new company, MARI
- Rise of experiential retail

The list goes on...

[Blockchain Capital @bcap]

Congratulations to @trmlabs on the launch of Ardence! Proud to support a team building modern, AI-powered tools supporting private and public investigators.

[TRM Labs @trmlabs]

Introducing ✨Ardence✨, TRM's AI investigation platform for all-source intelligence.

Follow connections across sources, keep the source trail, and put investigator judgment at the center of the work.

Learn more 👉 https://t.co/vOLgkC3pVq

[Blockchain Capital @bcap]

Boundless' late-night home base for founders is coming to SF!

October 20th, from 8pm to 2am, during the Open Source AI Week.

📌 https://t.co/MRsdJUIrUD

[Boundless @BoundlessHQ]

Flow State Lounge is coming to SF 🌉

A late-night coworking base for founders + technical teams during Open-source AI Week

Tues, Oct 20 · 8pm–2am · House of AI

https://t.co/21ayrdypGl

[Boundless @BoundlessHQ]

Thank you for coming to Flow State in NYC.

See you in SF during Tech Week!

[Blockchain Capital @bcap]

Lawyer-and-investor perspective coming to @coinalts!

[CoinAlts @coinalts]

🎤 Thrilled to announce Joshua Rivera, Operating Partner & General Counsel at @bcap, as a @coinalts 2026 speaker! Joshua brings a rare lawyer-and-investor, founder-first perspective.

Oct. 14 | 📍 Hyatt Regency SF

🔗 https://t.co/TrJrdjFuzn

#CoinAlts2026 #BCAP #VC #CryptoLaw

[Anchorage Digital ⚓️ @Anchorage]

Anchorage Digital is expanding its global footprint.

USD accounts, available to eligible institutional clients through Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., are now also available through Anchorage Digital Singapore.

It’s time to upgrade how you bank. 

We bring USD accounts, digital asset custody, global SWIFT wires, and 24/7 settlement onto a single platform.

More ⬇️
https://t.co/RwtkKKOX2d

Open an account: https://t.co/5B0PkHfOFa

[Blockchain Capital @bcap]

Thank you to Brian Farber @CahillNXT for hosting us at Confluence 2026.

@h_joshua_rivera discussed digital asset investing, where venture capital is headed, and how AI is reshaping the landscape, alongside @aaronqfu, @dbarabander, @LindsayxLin, and @ChristianL_opez

[Spencer Bogart @CremeDeLaCrypto]

yes - the onchain gravity well is absorbing all assets https://t.co/B5VXZ25MFq

[Jonah @jonah_b]

One argument for these expert data markets being somewhat durable is that there’s a lot of really niche knowledge in the world. There are so many professions and specialties, like certain areas of medicine, where much of what you learn on the job is not yet written down.

As a result, there may be a last-mile problem. Maybe we get the models 90% of the way there for some proffessions, but the last 10% is as hard as the first 90%. Then the same may be true for the next 1%, and the 0.1% after that. There will always be surface area the model hasn’t touched.

So, in the limit, yes, the waterline on these models could be better than humans, but this regime where there is still useful data on the margins may persist.

FWIW, I’m not taking a side yet on the durability of these markets. I’m more just thinking out loud. What do others think?

[Aleks Larsen @alekslarsen]

Part of why crypto gaming hasn't taken off yet is the difficulty of developing great games, meaning you really needed to win the hearts of great game developers. Now that AI lets smaller teams build increasingly ambitious games at lower cost, it feels like a great time to build at that intersection.

People are quick to write off entire categories in bear markets, but stronger property rights are a natural fit for games

[Jonah @jonah_b]

It’s no secret that AI is getting really good at hacking, and financial infrastructure is the obvious target. Why? Because the purpose of most hacks is ultimately to steal money. So why not cut to the chase?

One of the most obvious attack surfaces is agentic commerce. It’s still incredibly new, and unlike traditional software, AI is non-deterministic and vulnerable to things like prompt injection, hallucinations, etc. There’s a huge opportunity to build the security layer around it.

Importantly, solving the security problem is probably a gating condition for agentic commerce adoption. People are not going to hand agents meaningful financial authority if hacks are happening everywhere. In that sense, the companies solving security are also expanding their own TAM by making the market itself viable.

There’s plenty of historical precedent. Every major financial innovation, from credit cards to online banking, created new security risks and, in turn, new security companies and infrastructure to address them.

And who better to take on this problem than the leaders in blockchain security? Crypto has been one of the most adversarial financial environments in the world, where the code you’re securing is often literally open source to attackers and successful exploits can directly unlock money.

Awesome to see the leading crypto security team, @blockaid_, thinking about this problem. This will be an exciting one to follow.

[Zile @zile_cao]

if anyone has experience “working full time” with any training data collection platform for RL (eg. Mercor, Handshake, AfterQuery), would love to chat with you!

[kashvi @kashvi]

introducing Sup[p]er Intelligence

a private dinner series for founders (seed to series D) and senior execs shaping the future of AI

first one is in NYC next week. table for 12 & 3 spots remaining. dm for an invite!

[Spencer Bogart @CremeDeLaCrypto]

Great write-up on why and how the winning payment rails of the future may be determined by adoption in the densest and most global trading regions

"The core insight here is that payment rails spread from counterparty to counterparty, and so I’d expect them to spread faster through industries and businesses with many trading relationships across different markets"

[Jonah @jonah_b]

Why might the Pearl River Delta become an important node for stablecoin adoption?

@yuan_han_li’s premise is that, like other network-effect businesses, payment rails spread through their users, so he expects them “to spread faster through industries and businesses with many trading relationships across different markets.”

He goes on to explain why the Pearl River Delta, in particular, is an interesting geo to watch.

[Blockchain Capital @bcap]

Adoption often begins where pain points start, and it accelerates where trade concentrates.

In his latest essay, @yuan_han_li dives into the role of dense trade networks and what motivates the spread of stablecoins.

[Yuan Han Li @yuan_han_li]

https://t.co/Dr8u56iFcG

[Kinjal Shah @_kinjalbshah]

start with someone’s first account and earn the right to be there for everything after. that’s what excites me about what https://t.co/fNIaui8dun is building. Mario and team have the right DNA to build for this next generation of Brazilian consumers

incredibly excited to invest as they lean into their crypto product roadmap 🔥