David // 01.hl 🐲

DEGENeral /Managing Director (operations)

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

Appreciate you for supporting us @FundersVC @al_nechaev

[Aleksandr Nechaev @al_nechaev]

Congrats to all the teams, and thanks @reason8eth for making the best out of the last day of Token2049!

Huge thanks to our judges @r_m_evdokimov @soultaker_eth @bobur_muydinov, and to everyone who came to watch👏

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🇸🇬 CONNECT Singapore's Pitch Competition has awarded its biggest prize pool ever, totaling $170,000.

Five startups took the stage:
• @Onlend_
• @coffer_so
• @echomoneyHQ
• @credilabs
• @qmcfinance

Supported by @FundersVC, @InspiraLabsHQ, @QuillAudits_AI, @HackenProof, @SkynetTrading_, @MetaLeX_Labs, @ChainstackHQ and Cointelegraph.

Congratulations to the winners!

[Wrapped @wrappedxyz]

Can’t make it to TOKEN2049 Singapore?

We’re live streaming our talks at Multichain Day and Onchain Day.

Up Next at 3:15PM SGT
Agentic Finance: Autonomous Capital, Execution, and AI-Native Markets

Featuring:
@chaddepue from @usecowboy
@DeanTribble from @Ymaxapp by @agoric
@JakeSalerno from @0G_labs
@reason8eth from @Cointelegraph

🔴 Watch live: https://t.co/R2kcQJ6UJO

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

I mean, only in Korea
@joinfrontier @jadodoo_ @SolanaFndn

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

See you guys Oct 1st 10am on the Stable Stage

[KBW2026 @kbwofficial]

NEW: @Cointelegraph, David Shengart (@reason8eth) is speaking at KBW2026

David Shengart (Cointelegraph | Managing Director) is confirmed for KBW this fall. Shengart oversees operations and commercial strategy across editorial, events, and investment products. He also leads the Cointelegraph Accelerator, bringing more than a decade of venture capital experience to backing early-stage Web3 teams.

The countdown is on. Get your Last Minute Pass today and save 10% with code KBW2026SNS. ⬇️

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

See you there folks 👀

[Techub News @Techub_News]

【#GWDC 2026 KOREA 】PANEL 6 重磅官宣 🚀

当 Web3 行业迈入全新周期的拐点，开发者与顶级资本如何在破局变革中锁定下一波万亿级新风口？

在即将到来的「GWDC 2026 KOREA」上，@SamuelKok97（@UltraWeb3Fest 筹委会）将作为主持人，对话 @BreakeyLachlan（Managing Partner of @KosmosVC）、@reason8eth（Head of @Cointelegraph Accelerator）、YT Tsoi（Founder & CEO of @hbventures_）以及 @Roy0x1（Co-Founder & CEO of @emerge_grp），共同探讨 :

《Web3 的下一波浪潮：开发者与投资人的机会在哪里？》。

🗓 9月29-30日｜首尔 aT Center主會場

🎟 门票申请：https://t.co/Hu3O2LQzB0
🌐 大会官网：https://t.co/sWbIDUFxOh

【#GWDC 2026 KOREA】PANEL 6 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚀

As Web3 enters a pivotal shift into its next market cycle, where should builders and leading VCs focus their resources to capture the next wave of disruptive innovation?

At GWDC 2026 KOREA, moderator @SamuelKok97 (@UltraWeb3Fest Organizing Team) will take the stage with @BreakeyLachlan (Managing Partner of @KosmosVC), @reason8eth (Head of @Cointelegraph Accelerator), YT Tsoi (Founder & CEO of @hbventures_), and @Roy0x1 (Co-Founder & CEO of @emerge_grp) to address:

"The Next Wave of Web3: Where Are the Opportunities for Builders and Investors?"

🗓 September 29–30 | aT Center, Seoul

🎟 Registration: https://t.co/Hu3O2LQzB0
🌐 Official Website: https://t.co/sWbIDUFxOh

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

Last-minute invite: the demo day for our https://t.co/9lauuSTG7Q Demo Day starts in 75 minutes 🚀

Investors, angels, and friends of the startup world - come join us if you’re free! Would love to see you there.

https://t.co/pZCPlPyYXT

[batagon @batagonx]

A 2 dollar lottery ticket with a 1 in 300 million chance of a 500 million dollar payout has an expected value of negative 33 cents. A 30 thousand dollar car insured against theft in a neighborhood where 1 in 200 cars is stolen a year is worth positive 150 dollars in expected value.

The math to compute either one takes 4 seconds. Almost no one runs it.

Andrew Lo has been teaching Session 1 of MIT 15.401 since 2003. The Fall 2008 recording sits free on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every decision his students will ever make, from a stock trade to a job offer to which route to drive home, reduces to the same 4-second calculation. Expected value equals probability times payoff.

Institutional desks run it before every trade. Retail investors run it before none. The gap between them has a name and it is not luck.

The math is free. The willingness to run it before you sign is the entire fortune.

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

@zeroxcholy @a16zcrypto Impressive

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

@zeroxcholy @NousResearch @rep_hq 👀

[Anna Shakola @anna_shakola]

New chapter for my previos job position @CointelegraphAc

Welcome @reason8eth as New Head 🚀 of CT Accel)

New program.
New mentors.
New funding structure.

Stronger Startup Connect, Cannes Edition, that 2 years ago we launched with @JulietSu
Now it is scaling into an industry standard.

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

@renesisfi Keep cooking!

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

We screened hundreds of projects to get to these 7. Every team here has a working product and real users - that's the bar. Over the next 12 weeks we put capital, structured development and the full CT ecosystem behind them. This is the strongest intake we've had. Let's go 🔥

[Cointelegraph Accelerator @CointelegraphAc]

Cointelegraph Accelerator welcomes a new cohort of startups ⚡️

• @CecuroAudit
• @hive3tech
• @DemetherDeFi
• @KenomicAI
• @TrendleFi
• @renesisfi
• @TheRiskProtocol

Founders will get access to mentorship, funding opportunities, developer support, and global media exposure as they push toward the next stage of growth.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

⚡️ LATEST: @TrendleFi has joined the Cointelegraph Accelerator to bring attention markets into the mainstream, letting users trade narrative momentum across crypto and beyond.

[Incrypted @incrypted]

why most startups fail to raise money:

>they pitch growth
>investors ask if it scales
>they pitch TVL
>investors ask if the capital is actually sticky
>they pitch a token
>investors ask where the value capture is

exclusive clip from Incrypted Online Conference with @reason8eth from @CointelegraphAc 👇

[ETHGlobal @ETHGlobal]

Meet the Judges: ETHGlobal Lisbon 🇵🇹

@reason8eth, Head of Cointelegraph Accelerator (@CointelegraphAc)

July 24–26 · Pavilhão Carlos Lopes
https://t.co/mz3z0UgAis

[. @kai_cabero]

I know a guy who pretends to be a venture capitalist to get his competitors to voluntarily hand over their entire client list, revenue numbers, and churn rate...

He is not a VC. He has never invested in anything. He drives a 2019 Civic

But he registered an LLC called "[City Name] Growth Partners" and built a one-page website with stock photos of a downtown office he has never been inside. Total cost: $57

Every quarter he emails the founders of his 8 biggest competitors with this exact subject line:

"[Company Name] - Growth Partners Preliminary Interest"

The body says:

"Hi [founder first name], we've been tracking [company name]'s growth in the [niche] space and believe there may be alignment for a strategic growth investment in the $2M-$5M range. Would you be open to a 30-minute intro call to discuss? We typically move fast on companies with your profile."

94% reply rate. Because every founder running a $500K-$3M agency secretly wants to be acquired and nobody has ever emailed them saying they want to invest

The "intro call" is 30 minutes of the founder voluntarily handing over every metric in his business because he thinks he is pitching an investor

"What's your current MRR?"
"What's your client retention rate?"
"Can you walk me through your top 10 accounts by revenue?"
"What's your average contract value and sales cycle?"
"What does your team structure look like?"

The founder answers all of it. In detail. With pride. He even sends a follow-up email with a Google Drive link to his internal dashboard because the "VC" asked to "review the numbers with my partners"

The guy now has the complete financial anatomy of 8 competing agencies. He knows who their biggest clients are. He knows which clients are at risk of churning. He knows exactly what they charge. He knows their margins

He waits 3 weeks after the call. The founder sends a follow-up asking about "next steps." He replies:

"Appreciate the time, [name]. After reviewing with the team we're going to pass on this round but will keep [company] on our radar for future opportunities. Best of luck with the growth."

The founder is disappointed but not suspicious. VCs pass all the time

Meanwhile the "VC" loads the competitor's top client names into AI-Ark. 89% verified emails first pass. Findymail catches the rest

The cold email to their clients:

"[first name] - most teams running outbound at your scale end up overpaying for [the exact service the competitor charges them for, which he knows from the call]. we install the same backend at roughly 30% less with a refund if results don't beat what you're getting now. quick whatsapp?"

He knows the exact price to undercut because the competitor literally told him on a recorded Zoom call while trying to impress a fake investor

11 months in. $1,140,000 in closed revenue from the 8 "due diligence" calls

Two of the founders he "evaluated" are now paying HIM as clients. They hired the guy who pretended to be their investor and stole their customers. They have no idea. They just think he runs a good agency

He told me "founders will tell a stranger in a suit their deepest secrets if you call it due diligence. I call it that"

I asked if any of them ever figured it out. He said "one guy saw me at a conference and said 'hey aren't you from Growth Partners?' and I said 'yeah we pivoted to services.' He bought me a drink. He's my client now"

The operating cost of pretending to be a venture capital firm: $57 in domain registration and hosting

The revenue from pretending to be a venture capital firm: $1.14M

The 2019 Civic now has a custom license plate. It says "DUE DLGNC"

Few

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

Live in 5 minutes

Joining @incrypted Online Conference 2026

I'll be talking about: "Fundraising: From Narrative → Evidence → Commitment"

Join live Ask your questions 👇

[Incrypted @incrypted]

Incrypted Online Conference 2026 https://t.co/rR3gOyupgj

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

While in NY for Eth Conf @ethconf , I’ll still be speaking online at Ukraine’s biggest crypto conference, @incrypted - remotely this time. We always support friends, that’s the way

[Incrypted @incrypted]

Who's speaking tomorrow? 👇

1PM UTC - @KhomiakovKyrylo from @Binance with fireside

1:30PM UTC -  @deacix from @1inch on “Rethinking AMMs"

2PM UTC - @PLuchkovskyi from @KoloHub on "The Boring Layer That Makes Crypto Spendable"

2:30PM UTC - @mayurgupta77 & @paskal_navi from @krakenfx with fireside

3PM UTC - @vibhu with @_JackDunham from @SolanaFndn and @SolanaFloor with fireside

3:30PM UTC - @saxenasaheb from @base with fireside

4:00PM UTC - @ArikTheReal from @okx on "OKX DEX, Exchange OS & Beyond"

4:30PM UTC - @kylejenke from @Optimism on "How CEXs Became Crypto's Biggest Onchain Distributors"

5:00PM UTC - @reason8eth from @CointelegraphAc on "Fundraising: From Narrative → Evidence → Commitment"

5:30PM UTC - @AlexAuroraDev from @near_intents with fireside

6:00PM UTC - @tom_martykan from @Trezor on "Hardware Wallets in the Age of AI"

6:30PM UTC - Alexander Maslov from @Mantle_Official with fireside

7:00PM UTC -  Eamonn Deane from @AvaxTeam1 on “Getting involved with communities and how that can lead to potential careers”

7:30PM UTC - Nurtilek Taalaibekov from @CertiK on “The State of Web3 Security: Recent Hacks and Emerging Threads”

8:00PM UTC - @cjhtech from @trylimitless with fireside

See you tomorrow

Set a reminder 🔔

[David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth]

So grateful for the support @laceywisdom

[Cointelegraph Accelerator @CointelegraphAc]

Great products get built. Great narratives get funded.

Today, @laceywisdom of PL Capital and Cointelegraph Accelerator's Viktor Y. will explore why the strongest pitch decks connect product, market, traction, and team into a single investable argument.

• Traction-driven storytelling
• Founder-market fit
• Market positioning
• Investor-ready pitch strategy