I'm thrilled to announce Lightshift I ! A $30M early-stage digital asset fund investing in and building the future of decentralized financial services. A thread on our strategy…

8/ If you’re an institution, fund, ETP/ETF, or treasury looking to make the most of your yield and staked assets: • Reach the team: partners @ https://t.co/q0JxzX0XKc • Follow @GyldFinance for updates #DigitalAssets #Staking #InstitutionalFinance

7/ Why @Lightshift_xyz is investing (and leading): • Thesis fit: a new primitive in digital infrastructure & programmable assets • Timing: regulatory tailwinds + institutional demand for yield/risk tools • Team: founders who’ve shipped regulated market infra at tier-one

6/ Early traction: The project comes out of stealth with strategic partners from the best in class staking providers to custodians such as @Figment_io , @BlockdaemonHQ , @ZodiaCustody , @CopperHQ Now onboarding select asset managers, trading firms, and leading digital asset

5/ The team: • Abbas Ali @abbasali — former Product Head, J.P. Morgan Kinexys • Ruchir Gupta @ruchirgupta90 — former Head of Treasury & Options Trading, GSR A world-class duo with deep experience across JPMorgan, GSR, R3, and Nomura.

4/ Why now: • >$500B in assets are staked across major chains • Institutional vehicles (ETPs, funds, treasuries) need performance & risk frameworks • Tokenization of everything will allow to expand from staked digital assets to stocks and other asset classes

3/ Product Overview: • Sell yield upfront • Buy locked principal or future yield at a discount • Capital efficiency: cut liquidity buffers while keeping on-chain exposure • Risk hedging for reward volatility & entry/exit queues • Institutional-grade: clear legal foundations

2/ What Gyld does: • Liquid term staking infrastructure • Regulated instruments + a marketplace • Brings fixed-income tools to staking so institutions can manage duration, liquidity, and risk, just like bonds.

We’re thrilled to lead @GyldFinance $1.5M pre-seed to build institutional markets for staked digital assets — turning passive staking into actively managed, fixed-income–style products 🧵

The end game of interoperability is here Congratulations to the @union_build team and community

Introducing U: the token of the Union network. Learn all about U Tokenomics and U-tility, from @UnionFDN 🧵↓

In London early next week. Let's meet if you are building something new or investing in early stage companies. DMs open

LLMs are powerful, but they're stuck in the past due to data constraints. This means they have no idea how @ChelseaFC did in this years @FIFACWC. Unless they plug into Baselight. Let's see what happens when you do 🧵 without Baselight👇 with Baselight👇😍

Data is becoming the most valuable asset in the world and institutions are only now realizing that they don't control it. @AkaveCloud just launched: - Enterprise ready, S3 compatible - 80% cost reduction with no egress costs - Encrypted, verifiable and programmable Own your

it’s now obvious that some of the biggest companies of the next decade will be built in crypto, but most people still think the whole space is a scam. incredibly asymmetric opportunity to build a huge business while the rest of the world catches up

Big congrats to the team at @ConcreteXYZ and @GlowFinanceXYZ on their latest round led by @polychain with participation from @yzilabs (fka @BinanceLabs) and @vaneck_us 👏 @Lightshift_xyz backed them early and it's been great to watch them grow

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The VC conversation in blockchain has completely changed. It used to be about ideas — what’s next, what’s exciting, what could 100x. Now, it’s about the game of investing itself. 🧵 A breakdown of what VCs are really talking about: 1. Deal Flow The number of quality deals and

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Proof that VCs can wake up before 9am — thanks to everyone who joined our Lisbon breakfast this morning ☕️🥐 Especially our co-organizers @benlakoff at @BanklessHQ , @dotcuriouscat at @PortalVentures and @0xave at @frachtisvc for making it happen