Amazing.
These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out.
Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets:
I’m super proud of @thibault_formal and the @Linkup_platform Research team for releasing SPARSEUP! This was a missing piece in the open source community and the strongest public sparse retriever at this size (<150M).
Congratulations!
For the last couple of years we've been quietly building Mercator, the crawler behind @Linkup_platform's search API. It now pulls billions of pages a day. Finally wrote up how.
Linkup joined us as the web search partner for the World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon.
Our teams were building agents across research, finance, sales, hiring, education, and knowledge work. Every one of those products need high quality context that's live on the web.
Quality context can take your AI product from 1x to 10x.
That is exactly where Linkup comes in.
Instead of spending hours figuring out search, retrieval, and data quality, builders plugged Linkup in and focused on the actual product.
What stood out to me was the feedback from the builders: they were getting information that they did not get previously through other web search providers.
Side note: We currently use multiple third party enrichment platforms inside GrowthX. After seeing Linkup perform during the Buildathon, we are now looking at moving more of that stack to Linkup.
That probably says more than any partnership post could
🌍 World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon
10 cities. 5 countries. $750K credits
Backed by OpenAI, Convex, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, Linkup, Dodo Payments, Hissa Fund & Wispr Flow. Proudly presented by GrowthX.
Hermes is the fastest growing AI agent in 2026 (Open Source). Millions of developers are obsessed with it, and so are we.
Happening across
- San Francisco
- Paris
- Singapore
- Jaipur
- Delhi
- Mumbai
- Pune
- London
- Hyderabad
- & Bengaluru
Who are your hosts?
In Bengaluru,
we have Kshitij, Engineer @NousResearch, @AshikkaG (Founding Engineer @ Rapidflare) & Pranav (Tech Lead @ GrowthX). Hosted at the awesome @Razorpay
In San Francisco, we have
Kishan (Sr. Engineering Manager @ Okta), Saloni (Growth @ Tandem AI, ex Antler, Inmobi) & Udayan (Yup! I am co-hosting SF)
In Mumbai, we have
Prathamesh ( Head of AI @ NotYourIdea), Apoorva (AVP @ Angel One) & Jaimit (Founder @ Metuzi AI, ex CMO @ Lenskart)
In Delhi, we have
Anupam (CEO @ Digia, ex Engineering leader at Urban Company) & Nishkarsh Bansal (Head of Product and AI at YC-backed AppX)
In Paris, we have
@satvikputi (Product @ Stairling, Ambassador Lovable, ex Opella)
In Pune, we have
Two Rahuls :).. Rahul (Lead, Data Science @ Mindstix), Rahul (Tech @ Cadence)
In Singapore, we have
Ayan (AI Product Lead @ Afresh), Ayushi (Growth Head @ Aramya, backed by Accel & Matrix)
In Hyderabad, we have
Akhilesh (Director of AI @ Altir), Hitesh (Founder @ Motor360, ex Engineering Manager @ Gainsight)
In Jaipur, we have
Prateek (Tech lead @ Red Hat), Surbhi (ex Engineering Director @ Glance).
In London, we have
Yogi (Partnerships @ Canva; 103 partnerships including NVIDIA, Stripe, and Google)
Whether you're in the US, India, Singapore, Europe, or the UK. Across 5 time zones, there's a room near you.
Who is this for?
AI-first engineers
Founders
Product leads
Growth engineers
Forward deployed engineers
GTM and growth operators
Registrations close in 72 hours.