Nascent

Nascent is a team of builders who back early-stage crypto founders creating products and primitives for an open financial world

[p0pular @popular_12345]

Building this has been a blast. We've found a ton of high-impact bugs: webkit, nodejs, ruby, L1s, and many many more. Currently #1 on the hackerone business leaderboard!

AI offsec tooling stopped being speculative a while ago. Attackers are most certainly abusing it. You should be too.

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@cantinasecurity

[Cantina 🪐 @cantinasecurity]

We spent years finding vulnerabilities before attackers did. That was the easy part.

Teams already know what's broken. Nobody has the bandwidth to close it.

Today we raised $16.5M to make Cantina the security workforce for your security workforce. https://t.co/GWF2OICZsr

[Bundle @joinbundle]

Introducing Bundle, the world’s first networked rewards platform.

We raised $5.5m pre-seed to pursue our mission of transforming how businesses reward customers.

Led by @etherealvc and @further. Round included @nascent, @GSR_io, @SceniusCapital, @Anchorage and @nuwacapital.

[Ground @ground_onchain]

Ground is expanding beyond crypto-native yield into tokenized real-world assets, and we're strengthening our leadership team to match this growth.

Tokenized treasuries, AAA CLO strategies, and crypto basis strategies are now live in the same API alongside crypto-native yield sources. We've partnered with @centrifuge and @SuperstateInc to bring on RWAs managed by @JHIAdvisors, @InvescoUS, and @Bitwise, giving clients one integration point for the full spectrum of liquid, risk-adjusted yield:

- Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund (USCC), tokenized by Superstate
- Invesco Short Duration US Government Securities Fund (USTB), tokenized by Superstate
- Janus Henderson Treasury Fund (JTRSY), tokenized by Centrifuge
- Janus Henderson AAA CLO Fund (JAAA), tokenized by Centrifuge

[Tenor @TenorFinance]

We’ve raised a seed round led by @variantfund!

With participation from @nascent, @preludexyz, @cbventures, @lattice_fund, @veryearlyxyz, and @daedalus_angels.

[Ground @ground_onchain]

Introducing Ground, the Money Infrastructure Company, supercharging banking and finance.

We have been quiet, building with design partners. Today, we launched out of stealth, alongside a $3.6 million pre-seed funding round, to embed onchain finance everywhere, starting with yield.

Ground turns any stablecoin or cash balance into a yield-bearing balance through one API. One integration provisions wallets, deploys into configurable on-chain yield sources, and emits ledger-ready accounting your end-user UI and internal systems can use on day one.

The bar is fintech UX, not blockchain UX. Yield should feel like a native balance feature, not a gas-and-retries engineering project. You pick allocations, set policies, and stay in control of funds. Ground hides blockchains and complex onchain mechanics.

Built for any financial platform or asset manager like neobanks, fintechs, corporate treasuries, and wealth managers. Founded by fintech and digital asset veterans from @stripe, @SuperstateInc, @hifihq, and @compoundfinance. Backed by @BainCapCrypto, @paraficapital, @nascent , @robotventures, @chapterone, and Consonant Ventures.

- @rmcuming, CEO and @realsamyoon, CTO

[Cycles @cyclesmoney]

We’ve raised $8.7M to bring clearing to the masses. Our new round was led by Blockchange to work on the most powerful idea in finance.

It’s not just about moving money faster & cheaper; it’s about moving less while doing more.

[Bankless @Bankless]

LIVE NOW - The $280 Million DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever

A $280 Million DeFi exploit exposed the hidden fragility of crypto’s most trusted systems.

@delitzer and @odysseas_eth break down:

- how the attack happened,
- why bridge risk and protocol composability made the damage so severe,
- what Arbitrum’s intervention means for immutability,
- and why DeFi now needs an aerospace-grade security mindset to survive the AI era.

Enjoy the episode.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
0:57 Worst DeFi Hack Ever?
7:01 What Happened?
10:11 How Sophisticated?
11:42 Explaining the Hack to TradFi
16:51 Who’s to Blame?
22:13 L2 Architecture Consequences
28:17 How Does it Get Resolved?
31:46 Circuit Breakers & Rate Limiters
34:05 AAVE V4
34:51 Arbitrum Intervention Implications
42:02 Code is Law vs Human Governance
51:59 Stage 1 vs Stage 2 Rollups
55:29 Post-Hack DeFi
1:03:05 Aerospace Level Security
1:09:49 Will DeFi Survive?
1:14:33 Closing & Disclaimers

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@ivangbi_ @officer_secret @0xmikko_eth @eboadom https://t.co/6NNiTyzfZs incident response handbook by @nascent folks

https://t.co/4YEzcgAsDe pattern of interaction for best practices for defi operations

https://t.co/PnbLqQc0St simple checklist also by nascent

[J/\ck @JackSimison]

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[J/\ck @JackSimison]

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[J/\ck @JackSimison]

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[ETHDenver 🏔🦬🦄 @EthereumDenver]

Scaling Prediction Markets.

- @SirLeoThe1st from Light Node Ventures
- @setofsevens from @SkywalkTokens
- @JackSimison from @nascent

Full video below 👇🧵

[Dan Elitzer @delitzer]

https://t.co/i5RJq2cE7I

[Dan Elitzer @delitzer]

If you want institutions using onchain credit, vibes don't cut it.

They need frameworks. Collateral policy. Monitoring. Reporting. Governance.

@BirchHill_io gets that institutions follow risk models, not narratives.

@Nascent backed.

[blocmates. @blocmates]

Why Crypto Is Actually Fine @delitzer https://t.co/qlzG4vEKql

[11AM w/ Seed Club @11AMdotclub]

FULL CONVERSATION w/ Dan Elitzer, Co-Founder of Nascent, Dan Smith, Senior Research Analyst at Blockworks

Recorded LIVE at Solana Breakpoint 2025

[Dan Elitzer @delitzer]

Term-based staking on Solana unlocks higher yields for stakers and certainty for validators

We like things that make markets more efficient and create better alignment

Excited for @nascent to be backing @pyefinance

[SpaceComputer @SpaceComputerIO]

🛰️ Total raise: $10M 🛰️

The seed round turns breakthrough research into a reality → live constellation of satellites in orbit.

Leads → @Maven11Capital & @lattice_fund

Participants → @Superscrypt, @etherealvc, @arbitrum, @starship_vc, @nascent, @hash3xyz, @thebbfund, @ambergroup_io, @cmsholdings, @BitscaleCapital, @HashKey_Capital, @Offchain, @bodhi_ventures, @ChorusOne, @imTokenOfficial, @MoonrockCapital, @Wise3Ventures, @encodeclub and others.

Angels → @WarcMeinstein, @JasonYanowitz, @ameensol, @Not3Lau_Capital, @will__price, @joonian, @crypto_han,
@melynx and others.

[Nascent @nascent]

Takenos is making “send, save, spend” across LATAM as easy as texting

No more currency chaos

@nascent is backing the vision built by some of the grittiest founders we’ve met

[Takenos 🌮 @TakenosApp]

We are happy to announce our seed round led by @lattice_fund and @variantfund with the support from @NorthIslandVC, Refract Ventures, @nascent, @hi_Reverie and @Gumicryptos .

Read more: https://t.co/GuEkVssHrg