Einar Braathen
@einar_hb
Followers
1K
Following
337
Media
17
Statuses
223
Web3 Venture Capital at @CoinFund_io. Scaling freedom and knowledge globally. Not investment advice; personal opinions
Boston, MA
Joined October 2013
Since I started getting interested in ML I got it in my head that all I wanted to do was one smart thing that I could look back on and be satisfied that I did. Most papers are kinda bad even if they get accepted - the idea is very incremental, or it's just not that good an idea,
20
11
171
8/8 Please reach out if I missed any companies or if you want to be included in future lists.
0
0
1
7/ @getdomeapi - "a unified API for prediction markets, like Polymarket and Kalshi"
1
1
2
6/ @verialabs - "Continuous AI pentesting that finds and fixes vulnerabilities, including smart contracts"
1
0
2
4/ @MultifactorCOM - "Zero-trust authentication, authorization, and auditing for AI agents."
1
0
1
3/ @freeportmrkts - "DeFi brokerage for wealth-oriented investors who want safe yields, no fees, and differentiated investment options."
1
0
1
2/ In this 2025 Fall batch I’m aware of 5 companies, listed below. They represent 3.2% of the batch, which is the highest it has been since the peak of summer 2022.
1
0
1
1/8 I threw together the YC crypto index, in honor of @ycombinator demo day this week. It is a way to gauge tech investors' relative interest in early stage crypto companies, measured as the % of batch companies that are crypto related.
2
0
7
106B parameters - decentralized AI is scaling!
Introducing INTELLECT-3: Scaling RL to a 100B+ MoE model on our end-to-end stack Achieving state-of-the-art performance for its size across math, code and reasoning Built using the same tools we put in your hands, from environments & evals, RL frameworks, sandboxes & more
0
0
1
🫡 @Einar_hb, Partner at @coinfund_io opened Agents Unleashed Buenos Aires with “How to Own Your AI.” A deep look at what AI ownership means: who controls the keys, who governs the system, and how open frameworks in the @autonolas ecosystem allow users to own their AI agents.
0
1
11
It’s no secret that it’s important to own your AI. But what does ownership actually look like for users? Tomorrow at @autonolas’ Agents Unleashed event in Buenos Aires, CoinFund Partner @einar_hb will open the day with a keynote diving deep into AI ownership.
They’re building the future of crypto X AI – and taking the mic at Agents Unleashed BA 🇦🇷 🔬 Gear up for solo talks from: 🦾 @Einar_hb 🦾 @Contentwillvary 🦾 @Dataliquidity 🦾 @Renckorzay 🦾 @AtatakaiNyan 🦾 @Marco_derossi Get your free ticket → https://t.co/vMHZvH2PpM
2
1
3
Decentralized AI is here. Let's talk about it in Argentina next week!
They’re building the future of crypto X AI – and taking the mic at Agents Unleashed BA 🇦🇷 🔬 Gear up for solo talks from: 🦾 @Einar_hb 🦾 @Contentwillvary 🦾 @Dataliquidity 🦾 @Renckorzay 🦾 @AtatakaiNyan 🦾 @Marco_derossi Get your free ticket → https://t.co/vMHZvH2PpM
0
0
0
The Bitcoin Summer Vaults campaign, built by our portfolio company @neutron_org, is a “self-reinforcing” system to bolster the growing sector of Bitcoin DeFi. Tune into @0xSpaydh's full interview with @flexthought and @einar_hb on the latest episode of Mined with CoinFund.
59
5
24
There’s a silent explosion happening across crypto - that of tokenized strategies. Ethena's "synthetic dollar" was only the first wave of a much broader movement. But while most teams tokenizing strategies today start by packaging them as stablecoins, because “yield-bearing
podcasts.apple.com
Investing Podcast · Updated Weekly · There’s so much noise across the echo chamber of crypto culture. What’s something people aren’t talking enough about? Mined with CoinFund is a weekly show that...
The rise of Bitcoin DeFi has created an abundance of new opportunities to earn yield on the asset. And at the forefront of this innovation is our portfolio company @neutron_org, whose Bitcoin Summer Vaults campaign has allowed users to bootstrap the ecosystem and earn income on
1
6
21
LiFi on its way to power the $7.5T daily FX market
1
0
4
You are still early!
Giza is the most-used platform in the Agentic Economy. We lead the sector in # of active users, with over 1.6K in the past week. That's 0.01% of DeFi's ~16M active users. Early innings, but the mission is clear: onboard all of DeFi onto agentic rails.
0
0
1
Still such a long way to go, not only for us, but for the space. LIFI is really playing the long game.
3
1
12