Laurens De Poorter
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cofounder of @belfortlabs 🏰, founder @SyndicateOneVC 🇧🇪, ex @google(x) 🤖; opinions are my own
Joined September 2009
After movies, tech & GDP growth, the Americans have now also claimed etiquette for themselves. This week, @lessin & @Jack_Raines hosted the first Etiquette Finishing School for YC founders. Despite its success, happy to report Europe is still safe on those grounds! 🇪🇺😉
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Back in high school, my biggest fear was to end up living a boring life — routine, predictability, no surprises. Next week I’ll turn 34. This past year has been the most transformative of my life. I haven’t shared much, but that’s about to change. What a time to be alive! 💥
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Crypto’s PE-ification: roll-ups, cash flows, Berkshire vibes. Great if you like dividends, but probably no hyperbolic upside. The juice is getting squeezed. What’s next?
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There’s only one place to build the impossible — truly hope they make this happen!
We’re about to leave San Francisco and return to Paris. We’ve been deeply moved by the optimism of the people here. Every time we spoke about our grand dream, we were never met with skepticism—only encouragement, and offers to help make it real. We came here to seek funding for
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Proud to support this petition for a unified pan-European startup entity. Let’s unite Europe's startup ecosystems! https://t.co/snfapCu1KK 🇪🇺
eu-inc.org
EU–INC is a proposal for a pan-European standardized legal entity to unlock pan-European startup scaling.
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Incredibly proud of @WillemSchroe, @alipaints, & the entire team. That’s one small step for @BotanixLabs, one giant leap for the Bitcoin economy! 🌅
The Bitcoin economy starts today. Mainnet is live: decentralized, EVM-equivalent, built on Bitcoin.
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Software creates soft men Soft men create hard times Hard times create hard men Hard men create hardware Hardware creates good times Good times creates software
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This chart is what PMF looks like
Stablecoins have found product market fit and this chart shows it. Stablecoin activity is largely uncorrelated to crypto market cycles – organic, non-speculative use appears to be widespread and growing even as crypto trading volume fluctuates.
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We’re proud to support @MurielMedard, @kentlinyy, and @kishorikonwar as they build what we believe to be the final missing link in the decentralized world computer. Welcome to the Optimum era ♾️
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The team is now heads-down on the 1st flagship product, #OptimumP2P, which acts as a dedicated memory bus for blockchains. It leverages RLNC for rapid data propagation, ensuring validators and node operators get the most up to date block data with minimal delay. 🚢
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Watch @MurielMedard explain this all 100x better than I could ever do:
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RLNC isn’t just faster. It enables parallel, atomic read/write across chains — with an order of magnitude improvement in throughput & cost reduction. 📈
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Based on @MIT Prof @MurielMedard 's decade-long research, @get_optimum is upgrading this with a modern standard: Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC). 🔮
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Blockchains today suffer from a structural bottleneck: data propagation and storage rely on 1960s-era coding (Reed-Solomon) and peer-to-peer gossip networks — limiting performance, scalability, and reliability. 🗝️
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We’re thrilled with @triton_xyz to support @get_optimum in their $11M seed round, alongside @1kxnetwork' @_weidai and other friends in the industry. Optimum is building the memory layer crypto forgot: a foundational upgrade to how blockchains move and store data. ♾️
We’re excited to announce that Optimum has raised an $11 million seed round led by @1kxnetwork to build the world's first high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain. The missing piece in the world computer architecture has arrived ♾️
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No one warns you but moving to SF means persistent, low-grade euphoria every time you go outside
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We at @TRITON_XYZ are proud to partner with Franklin Templeton @FTDA_US to lead the seed round for @capmoney_, endorsing their vision for the future of stablecoins and DeFi. The @capmoney_ team, led by @Benjamin918_ brings impressive experience as DeFi pioneers that also have
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Look out for our Partner @stutireal 🧜♀️ at Eth Denver if you’d like to yap about a few of her favorite things: 💰 Stablecoins, RWAs, Payments 🔐 Emerging Cryptography 🏪 DeFi
I have a special update for this Eth Denver: I am representing Triton Capital 🧜♀️ @triton_xyz 🔱 This is the new brand for my team FKA Kraken Ventures 🐙 We are the same team with the same thesis: Blockchain is better technology infrastructure for Financial Services. Periodt.
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