Farcaster

1/3 Excited to announce that @mbd has secured $3M in pre-seed funding to bring AI-powered recommender systems to Farcaster builders!

Co-led by @masknetwork, @polymorphicvc w/ participation from @a16zcrypto /CSX, @socialgraphvc, Forward Research and WAGMI.

Creating engaging clients—whether trading-focused, art & NFT-focused, or even AI agents—requires more than open access to raw data. To sustainably engage users, applications must deliver personalized, spam-free quality content to their users.

Since early 2023 at @mbd, we’ve been building advanced machine-learning recommendation systems pre-trained on Farcaster data and designed to deliver dynamic, relevant content and actions tailored to each user. All are accessible through a dead simple API.

I got my Moxie Pass! Mint yours to be eligible for upcoming airdrops, grants, Fan Tokens and more! cc @betashop.eth @airstack

The official account for Airstack, developer of @moxie-protocol. airstack.xyz. On a mission to grow the Farcaster GDP.

I got my Moxie Pass! Mint yours to be eligible for upcoming airdrops, grants, Fan Tokens and more! cc @betashop.eth @airstack.eth

"Web3 privacy cannot rely on proprietary technologies and no one can claim ownership of the mathematics” - as our Partner @eldar 
 rightfully said. Check the manifesto on the launch of Collaborative FHE-(E)VM by our Portfolio company Fair Math. All "how's" and "why's" here:

"Web3 privacy cannot rely on proprietary technologies and no one can claim ownership of the mathematics” - as our Partner @eldar 
 rightfully said. Check the manifesto on the launch of Collaborative FHE-(E)VM by our Portfolio company Fair Math. All "how's" and "why's" here: https://fairmath.xyz/content/collaborative

We've co-led a $1.4m investment in Fair Math (https://fairmath.xyz), Inc alongside gumi Cryptos Capital and Inception Capital. The team is revolutionizing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology, simplifying development with their FHERMA platform. Kudos to Fair Math for driving innovation in FHE! 🚀

We believe that the foundational technologies of Web3 should be treated as public goods and accessible to all. This initiative will improve the development experience, mitigate vendor lock-in, and accelerate the adoption of privacy-preserving computing

Founders

Neynar is hiring a staff+ founding engineer. We are building on Farcaster for the long term.

We're well capitalized. Last Nov, we extended our financing to $3.2M & added
- @a16zcrypto CSX
- @polymorphicvc, @masknetwork 
- @balajis.eth @linda @henri & more 🧵
to our cap table 

DC if interested 🪐

bit.ly/3SCeDdc

Congrats to the team and happy to be part of this journey!

Events

Gm! To all FHE professionals, builders and curious souls out there: 
We are hosting a free Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) workshop on Feb 21st at 2pm CET. Hop on board: https://lu.ma/79h2gt52 and get the chance to connect with the following teams: IBM Research, OpenFHE, Fair Math, Cryptolab, MindNetwork and Duality

Our portfolio company Sygnum Bank successfully raises $40M in a Strategic Growth Round! 👏
The funds will drive global expansion and boost the development of regulated products, including their bank-to-bank platform. 
More:

Our portfolio company Sygnum Bank successfully raises $40M in a Strategic Growth Round! 👏
The funds will drive global expansion and boost the development of regulated products, including their bank-to-bank platform. 
More: https://www.sygnum.com/news/sygnum-raises-more-than-usd-40-million/

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We're diving into a sizzling autumn,hitting the hottest industry events!Catch us at:
1️⃣Permissionless II in Austin🇺🇸
2️⃣Token2049 in Singapore🇸🇬
3️⃣Dappcon in Berlin🇩🇪
4️⃣Mainnet in NYC🇺🇸
5️⃣Devconnect in Istanbul🇹🇷
6️⃣ETHLisbon in Lisbon🇵🇹
Who's joining?😏