Spent the weekend talking to dozens of founders at YC alumni reunions and realized that we’re in the middle of an inflection for hard-tech companies. (10% of the recent batch of 240 startups are in hard-tech)

Sharing some thoughts on why this is happening below ⬇️

What's something you thought was a scam, but ended up being essential?

does SOL/ETH hitting ATH make you concerned or is a good thing?

Ethereum

"i can't imagine it dumps much more" - famous last words

Applications are open for S24 of the Orange DAO Fellowship!

We love working with founders at the earliest stages (actually tho). You might be exactly who we're looking to partner with!

Here's a brief on what we look for:

super impressive build

(not financial advise)

i love that BTC is testing sub 60K

this shows us how serious the institutionals are

Farcaster

launching @swapbot, farcaster trading bot!

easiest way to swap farcaster tokens in the social feed:
@swapbot buy degen
@swapbot buy 100 degen

share and earn 50% of trading fees from swaps in your frame!
tipping 75k degen between top 3 swappers!
https://swap.paycaster.co/api/tokens/b532c7e0-9f2b-4cb0-99cc-cd97c660c2dd

Orange

https://lu.ma/i5bdmxax

End of Batch Social Tonight

If you haven't heard, Orange DAO Fellowship demo day is Wednesday!

GM tomorrow at noon PST we have our Founder Chat w Sreeram Kannan - EigenLayer cofounder!

GM tomorrow at noon PST we have our Founder Chat w Sreeram Kannan - EigenLayer cofounder!

https://lu.ma/fdeozhgn

lumino

Yogesh and I are so excited to announce that we have raised a $2.8M pre-seed round! The last 8 months have been an amazing adventure, but there’s so much more to come. We are expanding the team, building out AI training infra that’s never been built before, and building out our protocol

gm everyone!

we are hosting an end of batch celebration on Wed 27th at Novela at 7pm in SF!

we would love to see you there 🙂

gm everyone!

we are hosting an end of batch celebration on Wed 27th at Novela at 7pm in SF!

we would love to see you there 🙂 https://lu.ma/i5bdmxax

DeSci

What DeSci stuff left an impression on you from eth Denver?

DeSci is something im hearing more and more VCs discuss, exepecting more excitement in the ecosystem

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

Super proud of the Neynar team! 

If you don't know how amazing they are, this is your sign

I run YC of Web3 @orangedao Fellowship!

#DeSci is my jam

Web3 FTW!

James Sinka - Orange DAO

@jamessinka