Our second product is called Blindsight and it will, as the name suggests, enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see.
It is ready from an engineering standpoint. Just waiting on regulatory approval.
crypto’s next breakthrough could come from connecting blockchain technology with everyday life.
when a product becomes genuinely useful to millions of people, growth can extend far beyond speculation. that’s the kind of progress worth paying attention to.
Forget @a16z and @PanteraCapital. @PiCoreTeam Ventures is becoming the most talked-about venture capital player in blockchain right now.
When @PiCoreTeam Ventures first launched, many questioned whether it could compete with established crypto VCs backed by influential insiders and well-known analysts. But its decision to focus on Robotics completely changed the game, positioning it as the first and only venture firm bringing a robotics-focused investment strategy into Web3.
And now, the results speak for themselves. Both projects have delivered incredibly successful TGEs, with airdrops that are arguably among the best in the entire market right now.
Remember, @PiNetwork Ventures even invested alone in one funding round for @openmind_agi and participated in two out of its three funding rounds.
And here’s the most interesting part.
Instead of watching which projects @a16z or @PanteraCapital will back next and rushing to FOMO in, the entire market is now waiting to see which project @PiCoreTeam Ventures will announce as its next investment.
What a turnaround.
We’re kicking off 10 years of @RippleSwell with a bang!
1/ Goes without saying, but it was an honor to open up our conference with @SecScottBessent. His leadership, alongside the current administration, has been instrumental in ensuring that responsible crypto can thrive in the US. I’m extremely grateful he spent time with us today.
2/ BIG partner news 🚨 we're bringing Ripple’s infrastructure to @RobinhoodApp (supporting both customer-facing services and core financial operations), from $RLUSD settlement on the @XRP Ledger to prime brokerage and treasury operations & expanding our relationship with @BNYglobal across custody and tokenized trade finance with RLUSD, XRP and the XRP Ledger.
3/ We are bringing digital assets to corporates 👀 → Ripple Treasury introduced 24/7 Returns designed to help corporates put idle cash to work outside banking hours utilizing stablecoins (this is one step further to realizing the vision of our Treasury management business).
4/ Last but certainly not least, @USOCC granted final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank!
And it’s only day 0 (technically the Swell main event starts tomorrow!). More to come this week…
Se ha hablado mucho de Pi Network y Axis esta semana. Esto es lo que está pasando:
Axis forma parte del portafolio de Pi Ventures, el fondo de inversión de @PiCoreTeam, que apuesta por proyectos de IA y robótica.
Pero la relación va más allá de la inversión, ya está en marcha un plan de integración técnica entre @axisrobotics y Pi para escalar juntos la IA física, y esperamos lanzarlo muy pronto ⚡️
Los robots necesitan datos del mundo real para aprender, y construir esa base requiere a personas de todo el mundo 🤖
Big news heading into @RippleSwell: the @USOCC has granted final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank.
This gives Ripple a federally supervised platform to support $RLUSD and provide digital asset custody to enterprises.
We’ve always said crypto and banks work better together — this is what that looks like. Real innovation, real accountability, federal oversight.
The revolution isn't happening outside the system. It's happening from within it.
JUST NOW: 👇👁️👁️👇
Axis is building the “compounding data engine” for Physical AI — crowdsourced robot training data (browser simulations + real-world video) recorded on Base.
Pairing that with Pi’s massive user/node network is the strategic point she’s highlighting: turning a large crypto community into additional scale for robot intelligence data.
"Technical Integration Plan for @axisrobotics & @PiCoreTeam is COMING SOON" - @0xsexybanana
Look at recent airdrop projects like @axisrobotics and @openmind_agi. Pi Network Ventures is proving to be the most effective blockchain VC fund right now.
A few thoughts after TOKEN2049 Singapore, following a long journey and finally making my way back home.
Quite unexpectedly, I met a Product Owner from Pi Network during the event. I should make one thing clear from the beginning: I am not someone who understands Pi Network deeply. I am writing this simply from the perspective of someone relatively new to it, and I would genuinely welcome corrections or different perspectives from those who have followed the project for longer.
I only began looking seriously into Pi Network about a month ago. Nicolas Kokkalis, however, was not a completely unfamiliar name to me.
I first came across Nicolas roughly eight years ago, when I happened to attend a panel where he was presenting StarX, the incubator he was working on at the time. To be quite frank, StarX itself did not leave a particularly strong impression on me. What I did remember was Nicolas. He struck me as someone with an unusually deep understanding of distributed systems — arguably among the stronger people in that field at Stanford.
Later, I briefly had the opportunity to speak with him during a gathering with mutual acquaintances. It was nothing particularly significant, but I remember people describing him as a rather calm and reserved person: someone who rarely made public statements and was far more comfortable with research than publicity.
And that was more or less where the story ended for me. I continued researching AI systems, while he continued on his own path.
Until recently.
As I began exploring the concepts of free mining, decentralised finance and community-owned digital infrastructure, a surprising number of people told me: “You should study what Nicolas built.”
I have never been uncomfortable learning from someone else, regardless of age, background or industry. So I spent about a week studying his project, particularly from the perspective of what lessons might be applicable to the decentralised AI infrastructure we are building.
What I discovered was that the problem was considerably more complicated than I had imagined.
Building technology is difficult. Building technology for millions of people is considerably more difficult. And building something where millions of people attach financial expectations, emotions and personal hopes to that technology is an entirely different matter.
Social media makes this even more complicated.
Perhaps this is also why I understand, to some extent, why Nicolas appears to prefer research to constant public communication. And I respect that.
Recently, he has found himself at the centre of considerable criticism, particularly around the decline in the price of PI. Some people believe that he is deliberately suppressing the token price, or that he should personally be held responsible for its market performance.
I see it somewhat differently.
Before Amazon became what it is today, it went through periods when its survival was genuinely questioned. Tesla went through similarly difficult periods. Had every difficult chapter been reduced entirely to the share price — and had every founder been judged solely by short-term market performance — some of the companies we now consider transformative might never have survived long enough to fulfil their ambitions.
That does not mean founders should be immune from criticism. Nor does it mean price, tokenomics, transparency or execution do not matter. They absolutely do.
But price and vision are not always the same thing.
What I find interesting about Nicolas’s original idea is its ambition: to make digital currency accessible without requiring people to begin with significant capital or pass through the traditional barriers associated with acquiring digital assets, while ultimately pursuing a monetary network that is less dependent on conventional financial intermediaries.