Founderheads, VC

🟣 Web3 VC with a founder mentality to help you navigate the crypto industry.
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[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

Do you hear that? Yes, that's the sound of non-stop building happening in #web3. 🛠️

New projects, new teams, new fundraising stages... new challenges! And we're here for them - we invest in Founders, not only ideas. 💰

Need a #VC's help? Reach out 👉 https://t.co/XpzNrUZLsM

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“We spotted nine Polymarket accounts, all connected, who made, collectively,$2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military operations,” says Nicolas Vaiman, co-founder of the small data analytics firm Bubblemaps.

“And now here's the crazy part: 98% win rate.” https://t.co/T79aYM48ZI

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

Congrats to @Corkprotocol on closing their $5.5M seed round 👏

[Cork Protocol @Corkprotocol]

Cork has raised $5.5M to build the missing tokenized risk infrastructure for digital assets.

Led by @RoadCapMgmt and @a16zcrypto CSX, Cork has raised from investors who recognize the market opportunity of introducing tokenized risk into the digital asset ecosystem.

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

@Corkprotocol @RoadCapMgmt @a16zcrypto Well done team! 🥳

[Concrete @ConcreteXYZ]

Cap has been reached.

Funds are being migrated to a secure multisig held between @stable and @ConcreteXYZ to be staged for deployment.

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

GMode ✨

[Mode 🟡 @modenetwork]

BREAKING: AI Trading Agents LIVE on Mode Trade

Outperform the market and simple buy & hold strategies with AI Trading Agents built for speed, consistency and precision:

✅ Autonomous execution
✅ Emotion-free decisions
✅ Real-time AI signal detection

Create your own now 🧵👇

[Yovela 🦙🔥 @AlpacaYovela]

😱 Over 11,000 alpacasss have signed up for Fiamma One (Mobile App) Early Access.

Your tickets are secured.
🦙🔥

Non-custodial BTC / Stablecoin yield, lending, trade and more are coming. BTC will be really fluid and connecting to the rest of the world soon!

The most trustless bitcoin bridging tech + advanced abstraction model + AI (soon) = ?

BTC++ Neobank ? all-in-one defi + trading app? You are the one who defines what Fiamma One to you is.

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

@Novastro_xyz 👀

[Human Passport @HumnPassport]

Passport Embed enters beta phase 🦋

Embeddable proof of personhood is now live, and we’re inviting partners to test it in their Sybil defense flows

• Full Passport Stamp experience
• Runs inside partner app or website
• Simple React component & API integration

Less friction. More completions

Test it 👉 https://t.co/pRcoDib7Nu

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

@HumnPassport @0xHolonym 🙌

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

zkgm 🔥
Congratulations to the @union_build community!

[Union @union_build]

The day is here. The wait is over. It's time.

The future of zk interop has arrived.

Union mainnet is live 🔥

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

@union_build tokenomics are live! ✨

Some highlights: ~60% of supply allocated to users, builders, governance and ecosystem, inflation lower than comparable chains (6%→2%), 8% of genesis supply earmarked for future incentives.

[Union @union_build]

Introducing U: the token of the Union network.

Learn all about U Tokenomics and U-tility, from @UnionFDN 🧵↓

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

@Elixir_Games has just announced their new product suite of AI Agents for gaming 🕹️

Elixir's modular companion framework makes games not only smarter, but singular. More in the thread below 👇

[Elixir Games @Elixir_Games]

Introducing Game Intelligence Framework.

We've built a modular companion framework to make games not only smarter, but singular. Allowing NPCs to be your friends in and out. Making esports more competitive with AI coaching, and more! 🧠🎮

Register now https://t.co/5cunF9fmT8

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

Build full Solana dapps with @PlenaFinance by just chatting with AI 🤫

Some great ideas on what can be built in the thread below 👇

[Noah Network @NoahAINetwork]

Got an idea? build it on @Solana with just a prompt

Noah AI is LIVE!

You can now build dApps by just chatting with AI --> Full Solana Programs + frontend functionality 🙌

Replit/Lovable for crypto? Here's what you can build 🧵

[S El Damaty @hebbianloop]

insane. @HumnNetwork at 712,469 human keys created since april ~ an OPRF request is now made to the network 1x every 5 seconds

programmable private keys & did is here, powering PoH for 2m+ @HumnPassport users and soon access to finance for every $HUMN via @HumanWallets

[Saint @thesaint_]

From 4664+ contributors setting the initial record for the highest Trust setup ceremony to 5866 breaking the record again for the largest Groth16 setup ceremony.

@union_build has all it takes to be one of the key leaders in the Interop Sector showcasing the full power of ZK and Mainnet sooner than expected.

ZK is the Endgame.

[Noah Network @NoahAINetwork]

Plena Gen AI is now Noah AI 🌊

Onchain vibe coding tool, now sailing under an Ark inspired name and mission --> Empower anyone, dev or degen to bring ideas to life just by chatting with AI

Everyone is a builder with Noah AI. Here’s how 👇

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

@fiamma_labs bridge mainnet is live! 🦙🔥

[Ride (by Fiamma) 🦙🔥 @onRide_]

𝗙𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘!

The 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 bridge, powered by 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗩𝗠𝟮, is now live across 11 chains.

Unchain Bitcoin now: https://t.co/usBPI38iqj 🦙🔥

[Human Passport @HumnPassport]

🔴 LIVE NOW

HUMN onchain SUMR — Season 1 has officially begun ☀️

If you’ve verified with Human Passport before, you may already be earning HUMN Points!

Here’s how to check 👇

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

@union_build 🫡

[Saint @thesaint_]

In the world of existing interop providers, with about 15+ key players

What has made @union_build distinctive and will they survive?

Here are some key takeaways to validate this argument:

=> Union by default is ZK-enabled, thereby ensuring privacy and scalability, but that's not all.

Union recently set a groundbreaking record on its Groth 16 Trusted Setup Ceremony with 4664 verified contributions.

Is Trusted Setup essential for Union and the Interoperability landscape?

Yes, Trusted Setup Ceremony establishes the foundation of achieving Trustlessness in a ZK proving system and if this is gotten wrong, malicious actors can create fake proofs and exploit the whole system.

In the case of Union, this is essential for:

Validating consensus and
Validating cross-chain message passing and asset transfers across chains.

All of these are to ensure no reliance on a centralized actor.

In addition, Union’s choice of IBC, coupled with zk proofs, provides the best solution to eliminating any centralized whitelisted actors when compared to its competitors, like Axelar's validator-based architecture secured by economic incentives and Wormhole’s multisig model governed by a fixed set of 19 guardians, where messages are valid upon (13) out of 19 signatures.

Furthermore, what makes Union unique is the use of solvers for faster settlement, which is possible through its partners like @aori_io.

=> Cross-Chain Governance

This is also another edge Union has over other Interop providers, actually making governance inevitable for almost anyone without being limited to the constraints of a single chain governance, unlike how it has always been.

Previously, users could participate in governance by interacting with the native assets on the native networks and this has often discouraged participation as a result of the hurdles faced by the majority, but now Union is redefining the norms by ushering in a new era of “Cross-Chain governance where the Union token staked on other chains can be delegated without bridging.

=> ERC20 Token compatibility

Cross-chain governance without ERC20 compatibility is a meme. Union tech stack is built on Cosmos SDK, which $U should be a natively Cosmos-based token, but Union is taking the bull by the horns by making $U ERC20 compatible from day one. This simply means DeFI activities on Union ($U) aren’t natively tied to the Cosmos ecosystem, including wallets (Keplr/Leap), but are also available on the EVM ecosystem and wallets.

This has already positioned Union distinctly as a leader in the Interop landscape, tackling liquidity fragmentation, showing a clear dominance and setting an example, starting with its token $U.

=> Union’s U combinator program

In partnership with Cracked Labs, Union also positioned itself as one of the key players in the Interop landscape by incubating early-stage projects which will be ZK-powered by default. This also, in turn, is strengthening Union’s dominance amongst its competitors, having bootstrapped these projects, which are natively Union ecosystem projects.

IMO, Union stands out to be one of the clear winners in the Interop sector as it has proven to have a robust and secure tech stack powered by ZK.

ZK is the endgame.

[Founderheads, VC @founderheads]

Four packed days of talks, networking and deep dives into #Web3 - all in beautiful #Cannes! 🏝️

@EthCC once again reminded us that Web3 hits different IRL. It’s not only about talks and tech but also about the community and building lasting products for real users.