Travis Scher

Co-Founder @NorthIslandVC

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

We have been working closely with @nvidia to ensure Hermes Agent works smoothly on their new @NVIDIARTXSpark superchip and integrates with the new OpenShell runtime, which connects Hermes to @Microsoft's security primitives.

Watch our feature in the big announcement at Computex:

[Tommy @Shaughnessy119]

So @nockchain is going to reuse AI inference that is already happening at scale, to secure their blockchain

Inference providers earn block rewards and Nockchain's security goes way up. Win/Win

On Bitcoin, the mining work secures the chain only

Nockchain replaces hashing with zero knowledge proofs. Consensus does not care what you computed, only that you produced a valid proof below the difficulty target

So the miner and the inference provider become the same entity!

Lets walk through an example

🕐 You run a GPU

🕑 A customer pays you to run their AI inference request

🕒 You serve them the answer, and in doing that you produce a ZK proof of the computation

🕓 That same proof is your lottery ticket against the block reward

🕕 If it lands below the target, you just secured a block while getting paid by the customer

🕖 One job, two payouts, and the network gets secured by real economic work instead of wasted hashing

Nockchain already made chain improvements recently with Phase 2 (2.5 minute blocks and a protocol fund) but this update moves taps them into a huge existing increase in security supply while hitting the privacy aspects well

@Delphi_Ventures are proud $NOCK holders and we really like @loganallc, @chiefgrug and the team. They have persevered through some big hurdles and delivered.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Privacy is defining the next generation of apps, both financial and agentic.

Privacy-first AI platform @AskVenice ($VVV) has 3M+ users and is growing fast. NEAR is the infrastructure making it possible, from private inference to confidential execution.

How NEAR powers Venice 🧵

[squid @squidrouter]

We are proud to announce that Squid has raised $6M in funding round led by North Island Ventures and backed by strategic investors!

Our new chapter has begun, with more news coming soon. Today we celebrate and say thank you. CHEERS 💫

[Variational @variational_io]

Coming soon in Phase 2: TradFi liquidity for 100+ new RWA listings.

[Venice @AskVenice]

https://t.co/5glRIGfVWk

[Sinclair Toffa @sinclair_toffa]

We’ve been quiet about this one for a while. Today we can finally share it.

@mural_pay is now powering stablecoin salary payments for @deel employees across Latin America.

[Travis Scher @TravisScher]

I believe Variational will become the leading on-chain venue for trading traditional assets. I have been an investor in companies started by @mr_plumpkin and @variational_lvs since 2018, seen them navigate some intense highs and lows, and have learned is that these guys just never give up. Major congrats, guys.

[Variational @variational_io]

We’ve raised $50M led by @dragonfly_xyz to go all in on RWAs and bring TradFi liquidity on-chain.

Today, we're launching Phase 1 of our RWA rollout to stress-test our infrastructure before bringing 100+ TradFi markets on-chain this summer.

[Nockchain @nockchain]

1/ Announcing the first Compute Market on Nockchain: AI inference.

[ether.fi @ether_fi]

New day, new all-time high in spend volume. Thank you for choosing https://t.co/gbHcksy7eA.

Onwards.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Hermes Agent is now #1 on the Global @OpenRouter token rankings.

While our journey together has just begun, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our contributors, supporters, and users for all they have done to get us this far.

[Travis Scher @TravisScher]

It was a great honor to interview @ErikVoorhees at @NetworkMedici in LA yesterday.

Few people have done more to advance crypto's foundational ideals of sovereignty, decentralization, permissionless innovation, and even fewer are now carrying that ethos into AI. @AskVenice is one of the most important projects at this intersection.

[Bounce.Tech @BounceTech]

Tokenized HIP-3 perps: Coming soon to HyperEVM

[Travis Scher @TravisScher]

On-chain RWAs markets have huge potential, but are currently fragmented, shallow, and expensive. Variational solves this. Big things coming.

[Variational @variational_io]

https://t.co/FiGmhI5YSy

[Tommy @Shaughnessy119]

I pulled 3,182 tweets analyzing @NousResearch Hermes Agent versus Claude Code to understand exactly why developers are choosing one or the other

I want to figure out why people use Hermes vs Claude/ Claude Code

Here is the breakdown using 3,182 tweets to distill the answer vs guessing 🧵

[Lonis @_Lonis_]

We just crossed 500 companies incorporated in Próspera - and growing 140% YoY in Q1.

[Ash @Wayland_Six]

Venice AI is now fully supported as a first class provider in Hermes OS. Try out using fully uncensored, private AI in your Agent today!

@AskVenice @ErikVoorhees

[Nicholas Chirls @nchirls]

A few months ago I wrote about Courage as one of the last remaining competitive advantages in venture. 

Today I’m writing about Trust (and the death of the handshake deal). 

Blog below 👇 feat. @JoeLallouz @aaronhenshaw

[Eternis @eternisai]

1/ Introducing Eternis
In Asimov's Foundation Series, a mathematician discovers you can predict the fate of civilizations by finding the emergent laws that govern them. For decades, that was pure science fiction.

[ether.fi @ether_fi]

Today, EtherFi Cash hit an all-time high in spend volume. More and more users are choosing EtherFi because Cash makes it easy to grow your crypto and use it in daily life.

Thank you for choosing EtherFi. Higher.