Sid Kalla

Building agentic finance
Previously built onchain social tokens via Roll. DeFi trenches
ex-bloomberg, ex-coindesk

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

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[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

This is a big win for USVC and @AngelList
Ryan and his fund are one of the best in the world at what they do

[Ryan Hoover @rrhoover]

Announcing Weekend Fund IV, backed by operators and founders (and maybe you).

When we raised Weekend Fund III, we did something different.

Toward the end of our raise, we announced the fund in public and accepted applications from LPs.

Our goal was to make early-stage venture more accessible and align ourselves with an army of operators and founders to help us and the startups we back.

Over 1,000 people expressed interest to join and hundreds did, but there was a problem. Legally, only accredited investors could participate as an LP. Accreditation laws are well-meaning but limit access to the majority of consumers.

With WF IV, @vedikaja_in and I are doing something different.

Like before, we’re onboarding engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists, salespeople, and other domain experts as LPs in the fund. But this time at a larger scale with USVC.

AngelList recently announced USVC, a new kind of fund that’s accessible to everyone, including the non-accredited. It holds positions in private late-stage companies like xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, and Vercel. I personally invested.

Today, they just announced their investment in Weekend Fund IV, one of the first early-stage funds added to their portfolio.

If you’re interested in being a part of Weekend Fund and getting exposure to generational startups mentioned above, visit usvc [dot] com.

Of course, don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose.

Investing in startups is risky and you may lose all your money. USVC shares are illiquid with no guarantee of repurchase.
Consider investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. Read the prospectus: usvc [dot] com/prospectus.

Also, USVC is currently limited to US citizens. They’re working to open the fund to other geographies.

Lastly, my DMs are open. :)

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@danfinlay Wow, good luck with everything Dan, what an amazing run with substantial contributions to the space 🤝🙌

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@nigeleccles @StudiosSen52315 Congrats Nigel! That's really cool to see

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@Fiskantes Accenture was ahead of its time

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@newmichwill Decision was from the Council, not labs. Can be done in the future, but will need 9-of-12.

If moral hazard is an issue, they can always upgrade to Stage-2 L2 or keep any future changes behind a timelock (doesn't exist now).

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@DaniREscudero @Pledditor @brian_trollz They don't have "access to freeze ETH", but they have access to L1 contracts that are upgradeable without a timelock.

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[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

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@Pledditor Here are some details of what actually happened, instead of dismissing things outright.

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[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@sgoldfed Wrote up some technical details. This was possible because the Security Council could upgrade L1 contracts.

Honestly, tough decision, but good to see a substantial recovery here.

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[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@defyneric 👀

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@munchPRMR Verifiable ZK-circuits and security borrowed from Ethereum matter. Even if not immediately, it matters in the longer-term.

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@yo_itsmatt Building it, still in stealth though. Would love to chat 👀

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@analyticalali @dunleavy89 @recvcx @CraigBurel @lattice_fund @MikeZajko @PortalVentures @Evanzsolomon @bcap @jonah_b @HashgraphVC @socialgraphvc still deploying

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@AriEiberman BTC <> LBTC is the closest to a permissionless "wrapper". Then deposit LBTC into Aave

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

I just registered for an .agent domain and joined the .agent community! get yours now and help shape the future of autonomous agents https://t.co/9V6SgSIE14 @agentcommunity_

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

Launch a deep research agent on the repo, go through all .md files, go through checklist of coding conventions used, get a sense of project state (e.g. still in development versus live product with paying users) and any next TODOs. Then write the CLAUDE.md and then condense it by half to keep it brief.

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@jukan05 Not exactly.

Average correlation with Nasdaq last 1 year is 0.47

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

Crypto as "money for the machines" was what people were talking about during the 2012-2013 period.

Somehow that excitement was lost to "store of value" narrative along the way. Hopefully we can revive this.

[shafu @shafu0x]

I actually thought I would never say this but combining AI and crypto actually makes fucking sense now

[Sid Kalla @sidkal]

@karpathy The most interesting thing will be how different models interact, with their different training, values, and world-views. People aren't fully differentiating between agents yet. Kimi is very different from Claude. Add in the open source and fine-tuned models, and ...🤷‍♂️