Hadron Founders Club

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[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

Just wrapped the @EFetheverywhere launch in Dubai and officially welcomed the Ethereum Foundation into our home at the @0xPolygon x @Hadronfc Dubai Campus.

A surreal moment for the ecosystem, and a proud one for us.

Huge shoutout to our host @WEB3douin , and to our panel @barinov, @patcito, @asal_alizade, @Web3Ling for a sharp, grounded conversation that set the tone for what’s ahead.

Massive love to @ethereumfndn for choosing to build here and trusting this region.

And a special mention to @chainyoda and @0xAishwary , the ones who keep the momentum alive and make moments like this possible. Truly the GOATs.

Dubai showed up today.
Ethereum has a new chapter here and we’re just getting started!

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

The founders who define the next cycle are heads down building right now. Despite the price action. Despite the sentiment.

Keep building.

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

This is the lane we back founders in. A whole crew of stablecoin and payments teams across the Hadron family are building on this rail right now (just to name a few):

@kem_app
@payy_link
@DashXHQ
@AtharFinance
@Unigox_global
@pagrin_
@AcctualTeam
@web3enabler

Go follow the ones building your corner of this. 🫡

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

The biggest infrastructure shift in crypto right now is money moving onchain.

Here's where it's happening, and who's building it 👇

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

The receipts:
‣ Some of the biggest names are building on Polygon, including: Revolut, Stripe, Mastercard, Visa and Meta.
‣ Stablecoin supply hit $3.7B this year.
‣ They also recorded 198 million stablecoin transactions in May. $80B in volume. The highest of any chain!
‣ It's not just a dollar story either. Polygon has one of the biggest footprints in the local stablecoin space ($309M in stablecoin volume from LatAm in May alone is a great example of this).

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

Huge congrats to @datadashxyz team! 🏆

They landed in the top 25 at the Solana Frontier Hackathon, out of 2,857 teams. Fully deserved!

[Colosseum @colosseum]

1/ Announcing the winners of the Solana Frontier
Hackathon!🏔️

Read about the winners & honorable mentions: https://t.co/9HXbhNtkU2

The subset of winning teams accepted into our VC fund's next accelerator cohort will be shared in the coming days.

Congrats to all! 🏆

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

Big one for @AlmanaxAI! One of the sharpest teams we've watched work, and they're chasing something the whole space actually needs.

Excited to see what you guys cook up at @depthfirstlabs. go build 🫡

https://t.co/rM30Q0zivr

[Francesco Piccoli @francescpicc]

.@AlmanaxAI is joining @depthfirstlabs!

@mmwtsn and I started the company two years ago because we'd grown tired of seeing weekly multi-million-dollar hacks destroying blockchain companies and stealing people's life savings. We believed the industry needed to move from annual security audits and pentests to continuous ones, and that AI would eventually get us there. We were among the first to see the potential of AI in cyber and build new solutions in this space.

When we started, most security teams told us our product wouldn't work, they didn’t need more findings, and they didn't trust AI to be good. But then we saw how the commercial tools our clients were using were missing many of the vulnerabilities we were detecting, while producing an absurd number of false positives.

We ended up working with some of the largest blockchain companies: Solana, Stellar, Aptos, Privy and Bridge (now part of Stripe), DFNS, Algorand. When people didn't believe, we showed them results: we found issues in Vitalik's code (arguably one of the best software engineers on Earth), ethically disclosed hundreds of vulnerabilities (to Ripple, Coinbase, Fireblocks), and won security competitions against thousands of researchers.

As we progressed, we realized that while crypto companies were among the most vulnerable (exploits directly steal money), the problem was widespread beyond blockchain. The rise of vibe coding created an enormous new attack surface and new models and harnesses were detecting vulnerabilities that had gone unnoticed in software packages for decades, some of which power most of today’s internet.

The time between CVE public disclosure and first confirmed in-the-wild exploitation has dropped from 2.3 years in 2018 to eight hours today. This and the release of frontier cyber models shook the industry. So we expanded our product support to languages and tech stacks used widely by enterprises.

But the scale of what needs to be done requires more than what any one small team can do alone

We believe joining forces with depthfirst will significantly accelerate our shared vision to secure the world’s software.

depthfirst is already swinging at the same future we set out to build, with the team and the resources to lead the way. Their bet, and now ours, is that the next major security platform will be in product security. As their investor @arshammem put it, every category eventually gets one company whose name becomes synonymous with it: Palo Alto Networks for the network, CrowdStrike for the endpoint, Wiz for the cloud. Product and application security, notwithstanding many attempts, is still left without a crowned victor.

We think depthfirst can be that company.

Thanks to our great team, investors, and customers who believed in us and shared our vision of the world.

Our ambition is now even bigger and we’re excited to build that future with @qasimmith, @andreamichi, Daniele, and the entire @depthfirstlabs team.

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

Founders don't get paid for being the smartest in the room. They get paid for carrying what no one else on the team can feel.

@sandeepnailwal just put words to the part of building most people never say out loud.

Every founder we've worked with will recognize this one. Anyone relate to this?
https://t.co/yfCWWIdhuz

[Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※) @sandeepnailwal]

I realized that founders dont get paid for their hard work or smartness, they actually get paid for their suffering, and their biggest job is learning to manage the suffering as they go.

there are days where nothing feels like its moving, youre getting pounded with negative news from every side at once and you cant catch a break, and it really gets to you.

most people on your team are working as hard as you, but nobody is suffering as bad as you, and that suffering is what you get paid for, because that suffering is literally the fear of death constantly looming large on your head, no matter what stage of your venture youre in.

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

Nobody's onboarding their mom with "0x6ca1a..."

Dope Pay fixed it: send crypto to a name. Even to non-users, by email.

Payments that finally feel like payments!
https://t.co/rz71C8GqWY

[Dope Pay @dopepayme]

Transfer Crypto to Names Now!

f**k wallet addresses( (0x6ca1a))

send and receive crypto with just a name globally.

that's it.

Go dope- https://t.co/cEU74rhqBp

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

The agent economy stopped being a pitch deck this month.

Aws just switched on stablecoin payments for AI agents. Per request, onchain, no human in the loop.

If you're building where AI meets onchain money, that's your signal. Tag a founder who's already there.

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

"crypto is dead." we hear that every cycle.

meanwhile 100+ founders are heads-down building across our campuses right now.

so what are you working on? drop it below 👇

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

Today we're proud to announce a strategic investment in @DashXHQ 🤝

Hundreds of businesses already trust DashX for cross-border payments with millions of dollars moving through the platform, accepting global payments and settling compliantly.

Cross-border payments are THE use case in crypto right now, and we're here to back the teams making it real.

[MENA Blockchain Week @MENABCW]

🇦🇪 Bringing a builder-first perspective, Saqr Ereiqat shared valuable insights on entrepreneurship and ecosystem growth. Thank you for being part of MENA Blockchain Week 2026.

[MENA Blockchain Week @MENABCW]

Thank You for Being Part of MENA Blockchain Week 2026 🇦🇪

What an unforgettable week.

🇦🇪 A special thank you to our partners, sponsors, speakers, community leaders, event hosts, media partners, and volunteers who helped bring this vision to life across Dubai. Your support, insights, and collaboration made this week possible.

📸 Find Your Photos from MENA Blockchain Week 2026 (Link in the first comment)

🇦🇪 Thank you once again for making this edition truly special.

See you soon!

#MENABCW #ProudofUAE #Dubai

@DubaiDET @SNXS_ae @Hadronfc

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

Closing out the first day at MENA Blockchain Week

Great conversations, fresh perspectives, and a room full of innovators.

See you tomorrow for day 2!!
@MENABCW #Web3‌‌ #deFi

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

Packed house for the Dubai Ethereum Community Meetup today at MENA Blockchain Week!

A massive thank you to our incredible speakers for sharing their insights on the next frontier of DeFi security, cross-chain infrastructure, and risk management.

Great discussion, great energy!

@MENABCW #ethdubai #Defi #Web3‌‌

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

@sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon The energy is unmatched. Great to have you stop by 💜💜

[Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc]

First session down at MENA Blockchain Week and it set the bar high. Packed room, sharp insights, and a clear signal of where the industry is heading.

@0xPolygonEco @MENABCW
#blockchain