🧾 AI’s next tipping point is Data Infrastructure
Already priced in the market, data collection, qualification and delivery are projected to grow exponentially in the next decade.
Hub’s edge is not another model tweak, it’s an entire industry.
Our distributed web pipeline, powered by users makes it faster to access diverse, high quality, continuously refreshed data.
Less time hunting. More time shipping
The team has prepared an early Christmas surprise for the most engaged members 🎄
A very early version of the Hub Miner is now available for pre-alpha testing for US based participants.
More information is available on Discord
🪜 Be part of the Hub team, the HubSpeed Program starts now
Hub is launching the HubSpeed Program, a hands-on track for the most dedicated builders to step inside the core
Gain real startup experience, build projects that go live and position yourself for a full-time role at Hub or anywhere in the AI industry.
Community. Business Development. Tech. Design
Learn fast. Ship faster. Grow with the network
Applications now open 👇
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@HendraMW@dango That’s a serious lineup of backers. If they’re betting on new L1 execution design instead of “another DeFi hub,” this could be one of the more meaningful experiments in the next cycle.
Following the "Smart Money": The $3.6M Bet
This kind of ambition—building a new L1 and a novel DeFi hub on top of it—is astronomically expensive. So, who paid for it?
In November 2024, exactly one year ago, @dango raised a $3.6 million seed round.
This is where things get interesting. The participants in that round were not "dumb money" VCs. The round was led by Hack VC, with participation from Lemniscap and Delphi Ventures. This is a "who's who" of technically-minded, DeFi-native, thesis-driven investors.
@Delphi_Digital Ventures is legendary for its deep-dive research. They don't bet on hype; they bet on new ecosystems and protocols they've rigorously deconstructed.
Lemniscap is a core infrastructure investor. They bet on the "picks and shovels" that will power the next generation of Web3.
Hack VC is deep in the DeFi trenches, backing projects that push the boundaries of financial primitives.
Their collective $3.6M bet was not for "another DeFi hub". It was a validation of the core technical thesis: that the "Grug execution environment" was a necessary and viable innovation to build a new, capital-efficient leverage market. They bet on the L1.
Now, connect that to the present. That $3.6M seed round was 12 months ago.
What would happen if the trenches came together and worked for their bags to onboard retail?
We’ll go first. $Bagwork is live TOMORROW. The next few months will change crypto forever.
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Welcome to the TWNverse—TWN Labs’ community for identity-native AI twins & agents on Solana. We’re here to:
• Help each other build voice/persona-driven twins anchored to iNFTs.
• Share code, demos, feedback, and best practices.
• Coordinate community programs (quests, reputation, airdrops) and track progress.
• Discuss governance, transparency reports, and roadmap updates.
📡 Hub expands into the U.S. with its new headquarters in Palo Alto
Hub is moving to the epicenter where research, talent and enterprise demand converge to be closer to our enterprise partners and generate value that will flow back to the ecosystem and the community.
Most AI labs still lack quality, scalable datasets, the fuel modern systems depend on.
Hub is tackling the industry’s most flagrant bottleneck by advancing multimodal data infrastructure that improves access, freshness and scale.
Full announcement 👇
https://t.co/qmQiLEJ2hr