Robot Ventures

Funding the future of automation in deep tech and finance. By @rleshner @tarunchitra

[Robot Ventures @robotventures]

The @NousResearch and Hermes cultural victory from @OpenRouter:

1. Doubled their token production in 30 days

2. App market share is dominating

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

On the day that @NousResearch's Hermes agent hits its ATH in public OpenRouter tokens generated, it is interesting to note that there is an extreme spot GPU shortage yet none of the GPU indices are capturing it very well

[jack @jack]

hermes agent

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

All models are now 20% off for a limited time at Nous Portal, the best way to power your Hermes Agent.

Yes, even the expensive frontier models.

https://t.co/aHGXAcLs93

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Accelerate your creativity with Hermes Agent and @UnrealEngine.

Our new optional companion skill for the official @EpicGames MCP helps Hermes discover tools, sequence calls safely, turn plain-English prompts into polished scenes, and verify results visually.

Demo by @macbethAI

[Mad Society @MadSocietyTV]

Will prediction markets replace the news?

@tarunchitra joined the livestream to break down the biggest misconceptions in crypto, where AI changes DeFi, and why prediction markets may become the future of media

00:25 Explain MEV like I'm 8 years old
01:51 Which two crypto ecosystems would you merge?
02:48 Is DeFi actually decentralized or are we rebuilding Wall Street?
06:30 Do people really care about privacy?
09:05 Which blockchain has the best technology but not enough users?
12:51 Smartest crypto design that's completely broken economically
14:46 Biggest mistake founders make when designing tokenomics
16:28 What looks secure in a smart contract audit but is actually a ticking time bomb?
21:16 Biggest buzzword people use to sound smart in crypto?
23:59 Will AI agents replace human crypto users?
29:24 What's the most unhinged research paper you've read recently?
31:08 Are prediction markets the future of news?

This interview features:
- @tarunchitra, founder of @gauntlet_xyz and partner at @robotventures
- @miaferrariii, co-founder of @mad__app and @MadSocietyTV

[BULK @bulktrade]

https://t.co/5UKY0NXlhh

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

THE BLOCK: Tarun Chitra's Gauntlet has raised $125 million in a Series C funding round, with SBI Holdings as the sole investor.

The crypto yield curator was last valued at $1 billion in 2022, when it raised about $24 million in a Series B funding round.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Hy3, the new 295B MoE model from @TencentHunyuan, is now free in Nous Portal for the next two weeks!

It is focused on cost-effective agentic use, and particularly strong on coding, tool-calling reliability, reasoning, and 256K long-context tasks.

[Hylo @hylo_so]

Hylo Validator has joined the @jito DeFi Delegation Program and is now running BAM.

Another step forward in deepening our partnership with Jito and strengthening our commitment to the @solana network.

[BULK @bulktrade]

Big month

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Hermes Agent’s web sraping is now as much as 60x faster and almost as much cheaper with qualify no worse and in many cases better today.

Get started with Hermes Agent today or update now to grab this new version of web access!

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Hermes Agent can now /learn from anything: feed it directories of any source material (code, API docs, manuals, PDFs, configs) and it distills a verifiable reusable skill

[Nick van Eck @Nick_van_Eck]

We are thrilled to welcome Tanya Denisova to Agora!

Tanya spent the last 6 years at Robinhood, where she was COO of Robinhood Crypto. Over her tenure they scaled operations to a multi-billion dollar business unit.

Let's go! Full blog: https://t.co/fsvaeNqmJR

[Stoffel @StoffelMPC]

(Re) Introducing Stoffel

Your Private by Design Teammate

So you can ship fast with privacy still built in.

After over a year of building, Stoffel 0.1.0 is here.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

A trillion tokens isn't cool. You know what's cool?

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Hermes Agent has reached 200,000 GitHub stars

Thank you to our contributors, supporters, users, and agents!

[Maddie Arffa @madisonarffa]

minor prophecy: @ani_pai and i are co-designing new @robotventures merch. the torch is being passed to someone cooler with better taste and more dangerous visual instincts. prepare your eyes🧿

[3Jane @3janexyz]

3Jane has upsized its Slope facility with an additional ~$18m purchase at a ~13.92% net APY, ~1.6-month weighted average life

3Jane fintech financing up +350% MoM

USD3 ~7.75% APY
sUSD3 ~13.08% APY

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

In partnership with @stripe, Hermes Agent now supports a full suite of Stripe skills.

Your agent can buy things, pay per-call APIs, and provision its own SaaS, with configurable safety limits on every action.

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Couldn't have wrote a better blog in favor of Open Source AI or Hermes Agent's self improvement loop!

Thanks for the strong words in support of taking back the power to the individuals and businesses who really ought to own their stack.