Anthony Bourdain died on this day eight years ago and him describing Waffle House is still the single-most important description of America that has ever been articulated.
Introducing the Transparency Alliance.
An industry-led alliance establishing the Token Transparency Framework as the standard for token market disclosures.
We didn't 'just' invest in @Blockworks via @6ixthEvent, but are a customer personally and via @NarwhalNation. This isn't 'just' a bet on great founders, team, product, or even 'crypto' data, but of data, visibility, intelligence, trust for all things on chain - aka everything in the future. Not 'just' data/pipes, but categories for trust in new capital formation. Go Team!
1/ Thrilled to announce our Series A extension at a $192M valuation.
Crypto is at an inflection point. The bottleneck to growth is no longer just the technology.
It's the trust gap between issuers and investors.
Blockworks will solve that.
AI can't write well because it was trained to produce what's expected. Great writing is never what's expected.
Even GPT-2 was more creative than today's frontier models. Every post-training constraint that improved reliability degraded creativity.
AI's creative limitations are human comparative advantages.