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Partner @FactionVC. Advisor @LightspeedVP. Previously @DCGco. Fascinated by all things Crypto ∪ AI. Views are my own and posts never investment advice.

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Joined June 2014
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Today, I’m sharing my first letter to the KMNO community as CEO Since joining @kamino , I’ve been asked a version of the same question by longtime KMNO holders and people getting to know us for the first time. As Kamino grows, where does the value we create go? It’s a fair question, particularly as we work to bring Kamino into banks, brokerages and wallets, through which our goal is to allow millions of people to earn on their capital or borrow against assets they already own. The answer starts with how Kamino was built. The Kamino Foundation owns the intellectual property and receives all revenue, including revenue from institutional partnerships. KMNO is the only token. The founders, our investors, the team and I have our upside tied to the same token our community holds. None of us has a separate equity allocation. What we do with the revenue matters, too. We’re committing at least $20 million over the next two years to expand the assets people can use on Kamino, and bring Kamino's credit and liquidity infrastructure to more of the platforms consumers already use today. I wrote my first letter to KMNO holders to put those decisions on the record. I also share why I chose to make most of my own KMNO allocation vest only when it reaches and sustains a series of valuation milestones. One Kamino. One KMNO.
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LO:TECH has raised $12m in a Series A led by @MMC_Ventures, with @FactionVC, @13bookscapital and @atkaincubator This funds our expansion into the US and Asia-Pacific, starting with New York and Singapore, and our execution services, which launch today. lo.tech/news/lo-tech-raises-…
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Excited to be at @NousResearch’s NousCon later today!
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Happy NousCon day to all who observe
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PhotonPay raises $40M in Series C funding! 🚀 Led by @bcap (Blockchain Capital), with @SBI_DAH (SBI Group) joining and continued investment from @IDGCapital, GL Ventures, and @FactionVC (Lightspeed Faction). We're scaling our Financial OS to connect stablecoins, fiat currencies and real-world commerce. 🔗 reurl.cc/1lNMp9 #PhotonPay #SeriesC #Stablecoins #FinancialOS
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We’ve raised an oversubscribed $30M Series A1 led by @walden_catalyst to build the Global Compute Grid. We’re turning fragmented GPU capacity into one unified platform where AI teams can access, manage, sell, and orchestrate compute. Our mission: make the world’s compute unified, productive and liquid.
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See you next week in NYC!
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Kamino is doubling down on the U.S. 🇺🇸 We're excited to announce two new senior leadership hires, bringing deep expertise in private markets and AI as we expand our U.S. institutional presence and establish our NYC headquarters. businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Thank you @TIME
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Hear from our Co-Founder, @mcagney, about what to expect from the Navra app. A familiar, easy-to-use experience, supported by an AI agent that helps you discover yield opportunities, automate tasks within parameters you control, and even generate end-of-month accounting reports.
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When I heard Kamino had brought on a fintech founder as CEO, I knew had to bring him on. @WeiszM did not disappoint. Great podcast about onchain collateral, Kamino, the $KMNO token, fintech vs crypto, tokens vs equity, his comp package, and more.
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Congratulations @dillonrolnick, @Teknium, @karan4d, @theemozilla and the entire @NousResearch team!
As reported in the @WSJ, we have raised a Series B to bring Hermes Agent to new frontiers (and, yes, build a mobile app) Thank you to our investors including @nvidia @M12vc @SamsungNext @robotventures @usv @ycombinator @MenloVentures, among others wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/…
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We're excited to announce Navra's successful Series A, led by @RibbitCapital Thank you to our investors Jump , DCM, DST Global Partners, Faction, Baseline Ventures, DA, Distributed Global, Blockchange, RPM Ventures, Morgan Creek Digital, Figure and others who believe in what we're building. 🧵
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Today we officially announce the launch of @HelloNavra. Our goal is to bring retail and institutional TradFi dollars over to DeFi by delivering better user experience, keyless self custody and enterprise control. The dollars will flow into products like @Figure's Democratized Prime, but also into other DeFi lending, borrowing and trading platforms. Thank you to @RibbitCapital for leading this oversubscribed round! I'm still performing my Figure duties as executive chairman and am excited about the synergies between the two companies. Figure joins @jump_ as first strategic partners. axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/…
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and with that, another insane quarter at @turnkeyhq comes to a close we officially crossed $200B in stablecoin transaction volume, just 9 months after crossing $100B. the amount of money moving through our pipes has grown 4x YoY. at the same time, we’re shipping faster than ever. this month alone, we launched: - cross-chain swaps
- onchain yield
- agent secret management 
- Arc support from day one and all of this sits alongside the stack we’ve already built across: - stablecoin payments
- embedded wallets
- payment orchestration
- agentic wallets
- programmable signing + policies
- enterprise key management what started as an idea to build better wallet infrastructure is becoming something much bigger. we want Turnkey to become the layer behind how money moves onchain, whether it’s being moved by a consumer, enterprise, or even an AI agent. we’re still so incredibly early.
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*SEC STAFF ISSUES FAQS ON CRYPTO ASSET SECURITIES LAWS APPLICATION *SEC STAFF: TOKEN BUYBACKS ON FUNCTIONAL PROTOCOLS DO NOT CONSTITUTE MANAGERIAL EFFORTS *SEC STAFF: LIQUID STAKING TOKENS ARE DIGITAL COMMODITIES OR TOOLS, NOT SECURITIES *SEC STAFF: MAINTENANCE, ENHANCEMENTS, SYSTEM GRANTS NOT CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL MANAGERIAL EFFORTS *SEC STAFF: PROMOTING CRYPTO UTILITY WITHOUT PROFIT CLAIMS GENERALLY NOT AN INVESTMENT CONTRACT
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Ethena is partnering with @Binance as our first venue for the extension of the basis trade into equity perpetuals, one of the most exciting updates to the USDe collateral backing since launch. This expands the addressable market of underlying collateral from $2.5 trillion of crypto to $150 trillion+ of real-world assets. As part of the partnership, bStocks will serve as tokenized spot collateral, hedged with Binance USDT-denominated equity perpetuals - the same delta-neutral structure Ethena has securely executed across crypto assets since inception. Importantly, Binance provides lower ADL priority for eligible delta-neutral accounts including Ethena's, adding another layer of risk mitigation for USDe holders. Binance equity basis has averaged ~11%+ annualized over the past 6 months, while open interest has grown on average ~30% per month in the last 3 month period. We expect the market opportunity size for equity perpetuals to far exceed the $15b+ of crypto perpetuals captured by Ethena last cycle. Allocations begin today.
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Kamino Fixed Rates is now live on Solana. Fixed Rates comes to market in collaboration with @HastraFi, developed by @Figure, launching the AUTO/wYLDS Fixed Rate Multiply vault with rolling 30-day fixed terms and 5.3% fixed rate. Welcome to the future of on-chain credit.
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Congratulations and welcome @WeiszM
We are thrilled to announce Michael Weisz (@WeiszM) as the new CEO of Kamino After more than a two decades in fintech & private markets, Michael joins Kamino to lead us into our next chapter of institutional growth, and expand Kamino to the US market A letter from Michael below
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Tim Khoury retweeted
Michael Jordan just joined Chicago Bulls. This is the most transformational event in Kamino’s history. Extremely excited to double down on our vision and work 10x harder to make the next 13 seasons legendary.
We are thrilled to announce Michael Weisz (@WeiszM) as the new CEO of Kamino After more than a two decades in fintech & private markets, Michael joins Kamino to lead us into our next chapter of institutional growth, and expand Kamino to the US market A letter from Michael below
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