Nick Bergelt

#Entrepreneur / #Investor / #Biohacker /#Optimist Always looking for good food, people, places, ideas.

[brryant @bryantchou]

AI is making marketers lazy.

So we made the website do the work instead. Today, we're launching @ployai: the all-in-one marketing platform that turns your website into your hardest working employee.

And we're coming out of stealth today with a $27M seed led by @ycombinator and @firstround.

I spent 12 years at Webflow as the founding CTO where I built the product, but also started our marketing and sales teams that drove our fastest periods of growth. That experience made one thing obvious: the website is the center of your business. And it's only more important in the age of AI.

Foundation model apps can generate assets.
Point solutions can optimize pieces of the funnel.

But nothing runs the whole growth system: your site, brand, CMS, CRM, campaigns, analytics, SEO, AEO, and customer data all working together.

Until now.

Teams at @hex_tech and @clay_run, and growth agencies like Tonik and TNT Growth, are already powering sites on Ploy. Hex is generating on-brand ABM pages at scale, Clay is using its data to power a programmatic SEO engine, and TNT Growth is spinning up a landing page for each of their clients’ ads.

Wake up every morning with a report from Ploy - with what it did, and what it wants to do next.
Approve it. Ship it.
Or be lazy and just watch it cook.

[Andrei Boca @drewiustinai]

Everyone says AI businesses are slop.

So we built the first platform that runs a real one.

Introducing Vibiz: the first vibe-business platform ever. Hand off your company, let it do the rest: create a brand, build the product, run ads, do gtm, all of it.

Vibe coding gave you apps. Vibe business gives you companies.

RT + comment “Vibiz” to get access ↓

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

NEW: China has signed 26 financial institutions, including Standard Chartered, onto its cross-border digital yuan payment network.

[xAI @xai]

See how @heavypulp made a trailer worthy of the big screen with this powerful new model:

[Tips Excel @gudanglifehack]

🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now build a full Instagram business that runs on autopilot. For free.

Here are 8 prompts to own Instagram:

(Save this is very important).

[Harsh hada @Theharshhada7]

MOST FOUNDERS DON'T KNOW THIS EXISTS

Claude has a feature called Founder Thinking Mode.

Here's the exact prompt to activate it and 6 ways to use it today.

[Nick Bergelt @NickBergelt]

@shiftj Did you keep the prompt(s) for the map? Interested how it correlates outside of that specific small business— could be very useful for many.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

We started as a place to buy Bitcoin, now we power your entire financial life.

Here’s everything we announced today ↓

→ Tokenized Stocks
→ Pre-IPO Perps
→ Stock options
→ Crypto options
→ Perpetual-style equity indices
→ Crypto derivatives, back in America
→ Time-based prediction markets + Combos
→ Launches: access millions of tokens, the moment they go onchain
→ Coinbase Advisor: an AI investment advisor, built into the app
→ Coinbase for Agents: connect any AI agent to your account
→ Base MCP + x402: give your agents their own wallet
→ The new Coinbase Advanced - fully modular
→ One unified global liquidity pool
→ Coinbase One Card, now more accessible secured by USDC
→ 5% Bitcoin back on travel
→ Crypto-backed mortgages
→ Borrow against your staked ETH & SOL with new liquidation protection
→ Transfer Protections
→ New Coinbase Developer Platform
→ Full stack Coinbase Payment solution
→ B20: a Base native token standard for any asset
→ Base App on web + multichain support + all assets
→ Private transactions for enterprises on Base

See you next time.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Introducing Coinbase Advisor.

One of the first SEC-registered AI-powered investment advisors in the world.

High-quality advice - specific to you - is now one chat away. Real-time portfolio analysis, automated tax loss harvesting, and more.

Rolling out to Coinbase One members.

[Gleb Kuznetsov @glebich]

agentic gen ui

[Flutterwave @theflutterwave]

Big news! 🌍🚀

@Ripple has made a strategic investment in Flutterwave as part of our Series E fundraising round.

We’ve spent years building our stablecoin infrastructure and today it’s live commercially with select merchants.

Together, we’re integrating RLUSD, Ripple Payments, and XRPL to make cross-border payments faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

The future of African commerce is being built now. https://t.co/qZ3hTHrh4X

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨 EU TO DELIST TETHER'S $175 BILLION USDT FROM LICENSED EXCHANGES

Major exchanges including Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, and Crypto .com have removed USDT for EU users after Tether chose not to seek approval under Europe's MiCA regulations.

Meanwhile, Circle's USDC has secured full compliance, making it the only major stablecoin available on any licensed EU exchanges ahead of the July 1 deadline.

[t54.ai @t54ai]

Agentic Payments Onchain starts tomorrow.

Time to discuss the agentic economy, x402, and more.

All on the XRP Ledger. ⬇️

[Nick Bergelt @NickBergelt]

@WKahneman 🎯

[Velo Official @veloprotocol]

How can VELO power merchant and consumer payment flows?

For consumers: pay instantly with your phone or card, earn rewards while spending.
For merchants: get settled in seconds (not days), accept global crypto, and cut fees dramatically.

Whether it’s online shopping, subscriptions, or cross-border trade — everything flows smoothly with real compliance and yield.

Better for everyone.

[Wade @WadeGPU]

The Doroni, a two-seat aerial vehicle, costs $350,000.

You can pilot it without a license after a course of just 5 days.

Reserve with $1,000 Deposit. It features 25 minute charge time , 500lb payload, and Vertical Takeoff.

Maximum speed: 120 mph

[ericosiu @ericosiu]

In twelve months, EVERY company will be running a Company Brain.

The teams who build it this year will spend the next year compounding. Everyone else is going to play catch up.

Here's what it actually is. You connect your Slack, your GitHub, HubSpot, all your tools into one intelligence layer, then build the org chart around it: a main brain up top, a fleet commander running the agent fleet, specialist sub-agents handling execution.

The reason it works is change management basically disappears. Your team already lives in Slack. You're just adding agents to the room they're already in.

You NEED to start building yours now. In a year this will stop being an advantage and will become table stakes.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Nick Bergelt @NickBergelt]

@pumpius Japan has no choice. Time to raise rates.