Dan Danay 🍊

keyTango, Airmada, YCombinator, MIT Sloan

[Verdict Machine (YC S26) @Verdict_Machine]

Introducing Verdict Machine (YC S26)! 🚀

$3.4B in digital assets was stolen in 2025. Blockchain is becoming critical finance infra, and it's under attack.

We're AI cybersecurity for financial institutions' digital assets: we learn each institution's environment, assess cyber risk, and generate tailored controls that prevent hacks.

Interested in learning more? DMs are open👇

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@antonlivaja @CautionHosting 🔥

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@RenatoLima_X Fiat is hopeless, so yes

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Eh Denver @algodevs

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@YoramBenzvi @giozzi @Cardano_CF @Catalyst_onX Thank you @YoramBenzvi for making it happen!

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@CardanoSpot GM, I would love to present Check Point's project: https://t.co/dSmP1wcF4d

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@rickmccracken Thank you @rickmccracken for supporting our application! Cardano deserves the best security, we believe it will make a significant impact on real-world business adoption of Cardano.

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@elie2222 @ProductHunt To the moon! (:

[Elie Steinbock @elie2222]

🚀 Inbox Zero is live on @ProductHunt 🚀

Inbox Zero is an open source app to help you clean up your email inbox!

With newsletter management, AI automation, and email analytics - you'll reach inbox zero in minutes 🙌

If you like it, support it 🙏

👉 https://t.co/DTToPpzss5

[Orange DAO 🍊 | founders wanted @OrangeDAOxyz]

This Wednesday, we will be hosting Live Office Hours to help founders tune up their startup!

Special guests include: @iamdonho @jamessinka & @jpegmogul

Want to be in line for feedback? Comment with your 1-liner below!
https://t.co/QFNivCnrwR

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Way to go @jpren , @brianli101 !

[a16z Frontier @a16zfrontier]

Crypto Startup School (CSS23) Spotlight 🔦

Team: @frenslol

Founders: @jpren, @brianli101, @jckyeh

Where is the team from?
🇺🇸 San Francisco · 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh · 🇨🇦 Toronto

What are you building?
Frens — WeChat for web3. Message and transact with friends, protocols, and smart contracts. Pay, vote, trade, and crowdfund without leaving the conversation. Web3 experiences are inherently multiplayer, but there’s no way to message friends and groups with the context of on-chain actions. We’re building the communications super app that seamlessly integrates transactions, applications, and protocols into the messaging experience.

How did the co-founders meet?
We met while hacking on public goods at Orange DAO. JP and Jack worked together at ClassDojo. Before this, Brian and JP separately founded YC-backed consumer social startups.

What’s a milestone or update from the project that you’d like to share?
We’ve been co-creating crypto-native messaging features with our community that could not have been possible in web2.

One lesson or takeaway from CSS so far?
Having a credible path to decentralization is important for crypto startups — founders need to think about this from the start. In terms of engineering: focus on finding product market first, then progressively decentralize.

Favorite place/s you’ve been to in LA?
Celebrity spotting at the Venice Beach Gold’s Gym and burning the midnight oil with CSS friends at the Santa Monica WeWork

[Dan Danay 🍊 @danaydangmailc1]

It was an absolute honor to judge the @signalweek finals alongside industry legends @DenelleDixon and @TimDraper. Kudos to the finalists: @bubblemaps, @Staex_io, @xverse.
It was great to represent @OrangeDAOxyz, thank you @CryptpalSingh, @benhuh, @iamdonho, @OrionParrott

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DAOs as a deal flow channel for LPs

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Interesting beaver documentary, shed some light on topics like the closure of the Senior House.
https://t.co/6Mgvn8KGt1

[foobar/ @0xfoobar]

somebody on BNB just got hacked for ~2 million BNB ($600 million USD)

the attacker is spewing funds across liquidity pools and utilizing every bridge they can to get to safer chains

complete chaos on the chain

[Dan Danay 🍊 @danaydangmailc1]

Cosmoverse Medellin, off to a great start! @CosmoverseHQ

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@ycombinator reunion this past weekend. It was great to meet in person again.

[Brian Li @brianli101]

Welcome home @ycombinator!

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

And we finalized!

Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.

[Dan Danay 🍊 @danaydangmailc1]

@OrangeDAOxyz is a network of 1,300 YCombinator alumni in Web3. For the past few months, I have been supporting the DAO more actively, evaluating investment opportunities. Ping me if you want to learn more. WAGMI.

https://t.co/u6S0quhm6V via @techcrunch