🚀 Big news! Tweed is now live on @flow_blockchain, making Web3 onboarding smoother than ever!
✅ Buy NFTs and tokens with credit cards or Apple Pay
✅ Get instant stablecoin payouts straight to your smart contract
Tweed + Flow = a game-changer for dApps. Let’s build!
I wrote an op-ed about dollar stablecoins that makes several points:
The proliferation of dollar stablecoins represents the projection of American soft power across the globe.
Dollar stablecoins create a rapidly growing market for US Treasuries, driving down the cost of US debt.
Dollar stablecoins represent the greatest experiment in financial inclusion ever undertaken, bringing a stable currency to impoverished countries where none exist and offering an escape from runaway inflation and currency depreciation.
For further insight, read the op-ed:
https://t.co/qncjtVSVVz
Did you mint the exclusive @RefractionDAO x TOWNS event #NFT in Brussels?
Our team built a tool showcasing Tweed's seamless onboarding process, allowing anyone to create a wallet and mint an NFT in seconds. Check it out below ⬇️
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Chain Support Spotlight ✨
@payTweed now supports over 10 different chains, including our latest addition: @base
As one of the fastest-growing L2s in web3, we are excited to support their ecosystem 🤝
Pour la première fois, Refraction x Towns takes over Brussels for a special evening at the cultural arts space Reset, with House Legend Move D alongside Tijana T, Dana Kuehr & Catalina.
We are also partnering with the local collective Chanoirs, on an exhibition from the 4th through the 11th, exhibiting a collection of visual art featuring works from @abieyuwaart@BrognonRollin@conniebakshi@emailyedelman@mathewjonson@nygi_xxv@madebyoona, Jerry Galle & Felix Luque.
As well we are creating a special gathering space, the @GravityChain Lounge Designed by @CraigmBarrow
Join us for an unforgettable night at the edge of digital culture in collaboration with @townsapp@Celo@ArweaveEco@Galxe@Livepeer@payTweed & Chanoirs.
🎟️Get your tickets at https://t.co/NsigZT86oZ
Refract Pass holders get in for free.
What an honor to share the stage with some of the best and brightest in web3. Excited about the caliber of founders who are pushing our space forward, building infra and apps that will enable the scalability & security needed to support real use cases💪🏼
#csx#a16z#cryptopayments
Today is our CSX London Demo Day 🇬🇧
As a reminder, CSX is our ten-week accelerator.
The program is designed around the specific needs of web3 startups, and will include funding from a16z crypto, mentorship from industry founders, lectures from domain experts, and the opportunity to build alongside a select group of fellow founders who are navigating the startup terrain together.
The teams are representing a wide range of categories within crypto, including...
Infra, on-chain gaming, fashion, deSci & more.
Here are the participating teams and what they do, in their own words:
@amino_chain - “A decentralized bio-sample marketplace that connects clinical sites and biobanks with bio-pharma companies, and lets patients track the use of their donated samples.”
@CollarProtocol - “The investment bank of the future.”
@labs_compass- “The new standard interface for DeFi”
@0xHungryCats - “A rollup & co-processor stack, based on a new cryptographic construction, Naysayer Proofs”
@OpenLayerHQ - “The first modular authentic data layer, powered by everyone.”
@launchcaster - “A crypto product hunt and https://t.co/M46G6SWXlg a platform for building smart contract mini apps”
@magicblock - “Framework for onchain gaming on Solana & SVM”
@nebrazkp - “R&D organization that scales and composes proof verification on blockchains, starting from Ethereum.”
@neynarxyz - “Developer infrastructure for Farcaster. “
@nodekitorg - “Building a shared sequencer called SEQ to help decentralize rollups and improve interoperability.”
@noshdelivery - “Decentralized food delivery protocol.”
@opentrade_io - “Provides institutional lending and yield products for the new digital economy.”
@playmintuk - “Building Downstream, the UGC game platform that lets everyone create autonomous worlds.”
@Roux__xyz - “A food culture network, using blockchain rails to transform recipes into building blocks of cuisine.”
@sablier - “Provides infrastructure for token distribution in web3 (vesting, payroll, airdrops, and more)”
@scryptedinc- “Solving the cold start problem for web3 gaming with Autonomous AI”
@Spire_Labs - “ZK Appchain network with atomic composability.”
@strobelabs - “DeFi scaling network that enables new permissionless and transparent markets.”
Tata Bazaar - “A social commerce platform connecting the physical and digital worlds of fashion and beauty.”
@taralli_labs - “A protocol that enables an efficient and decentralized zero-knowledge proof supply chain”
@titlesxyz - “Creative tools powered by artist-trained AI models.”
@TranchedSocial - “Automate private securitisation transactions using blockchain technology.”
@payTweed - “Embedded payment infrastructure for compliant and frictionless user onboarding and monetization..”
@ValyuNetwork -” Provide trusted data to AI models and applications, helping to solve copyright and hallucination issues (with data tokenization).”
@zkpassport - “Prove the authenticity of your government-issued passport and selectively reveal information about it to services using zero-knowledge proofs."
Follow along for more updates throughout the day.
Huge congratulations and good luck to our amazing founder and CEO @MichelleLatzer who’s presenting at demo day today 🤩🤩🤩 lots of hard work leading up to today !!!
From Hollywood to Web3, @miaferrariii chats with @CryptoBren7, BD & Partnerships @payTweed, about her transition from acting to traditional finance to the forefront of crypto.
Watch below as Bren explains her role in onboarding the globe to web3 through @payTweed 👇
Today we’re announcing the full cohort for CSX Spring 2024 in London
Our Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Spring 2024 program kicks off this week, with the founders of 25 promising early-stage startups gathered in London. Over 10 weeks, they’ll learn from each other and receive guidance and resources from the @a16zcrypto team, speeding up their path to product-market fit and setting them up for long-term growth and success.
The CSX Spring 2024 participants beat out a very competitive field to get here. We received applications from across the world, and the cohort includes founders from eight different countries: Israel, Japan, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The founders of these 25 companies have an ambitious vision paired with the drive and talent to advance core sectors of the crypto ecosystem, including infrastructure, consumer apps, DeFi, payments, games, dev tools, and DePIN.
Here are the CSX Spring 2024 participants:
@Amino_Chain: a decentralized bio-sample marketplace
@CollarProtocol: building the investment bank of the future
@labs_compass: building a new standard interface for DeFi
@0xHungryCats: verification of safe and trustworthy AI workflows
@launchcaster: a crypto product hunt and platform for building smart contract mini apps
@magicblock: framework for on-chain gaming on Solana and SVM
@nebrazkp: an R&D organization that scales and composes proof verification on blockchains
@neynarxyz: developer infrastructure for Farcaster
@nodekitorg: building a shared sequencer to help decentralize rollups and improve interoperability
@NoshDelivery: a decentralized food delivery protocol
@OpenLayerHQ: scaling web3 through optimistic verifiable computation
@opentrade_io: provides institutional lending and yield products for the new digital economy
@PlaymintUK: creating an autonomous world that lets builders create onchain game experiences
@roux__xyz: a culinary platform for the digital era
@Sablier: provides infrastructure for token distribution in web3
@scryptedinc: building at the intersection of AI, gaming, and decentralization
@Spire_Labs: a zk Appchain network with atomic composability
@Strobe_Labs: a DeFi scaling network that enables new permissionless and transparent markets
@taralli_labs: a protocol that enables an efficient and decentralized zero-knowledge proof supply chain
Tata Bazaar: a social commerce platform connecting the physical and digital worlds of fashion and beauty
@titlesxyz: builds creative tools powered by artist-trained AI models
@TranchedSocial: automates private securitisation transactions using blockchain technology
@paytweed: wallet and payment solution to onboard consumers in blockchain-based applications
@ValyuNetwork: provides trusted data to AI models and applications
@zkPassport: authentication for government-issued passports with selective reveal of information
Congratulations to all! I’m looking forward to working closely with each of you in the coming months.
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