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Climbing Hard AI Peaks AI founders are navigating a landscape that’s rapidly shifting — from the physical infrastructure, foundational model decisions…

Are you a seed-stage founder / builder (or soon to be) working on the hard frontier of AI? Then apply to join Climbing Hard AI Peaks, an immersive two-day summit for learning and exchange:

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Censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT YouTube video by BlueYard Capital

@gordon.bsky.social on the origin of the name Samizdat – from his conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT.

Watch the full conversation here: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ...

Building a Privacy Preserving Intent-Driven Discovery Protocol YouTube video by BlueYard Capital

Can discovery happen without exposure? Join @chadfowler.com and Seref Yarar for a conversation and live demo on how Index Network is building a privacy-first protocol for intent-driven discovery.

🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th | 3pm ET
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“AI can fake all kinds of things, but it cannot fake a cryptographic signature” – @gordon.bsky.social

Watch the full conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ...

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Join @chadfowler.com for a livestream with Tim Robinson as he walks us through the motivation and architecture behind FreePay - the worlds first open source, fee-free payment terminal.

🗓️ Wednesday, July 23rd | 10:00am ET / 16:00 CET

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Censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT https://github.com/gordonbrander/szdt Signed Zero-trust DaTa. Pronounced "Samizdat". Signed CBOR for censorship-resistant data archives. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out Stream...

Join @chadfowler.com and @gordon.bsky.social for a livestream on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT (Signed Zero-trust DaTa. Pronounced "Samizdat")

🗓️ Wednesday, July 2nd | 9am ET
🎬 www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ...

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Exploring Ethereum's Latest Upgrade, Pectra with Open Onchain Data Exploring Ethereum's Latest Upgrade Pectra with Open Onchain Data Join John Calabrese and Chad Fowler as they explore Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade using open data tools from Agnostic. This live session w...

Join John Calabrese and @chadfowler.com as they explore Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade using open data tools from www.agnostic.engineering

🗓️ Tuesday, June 10th | 11am ET
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Manex AI “The future of manufacturing is autonomous, powered by AI-based factory operating systems” is hardly a controversial statement. In fact, a…

We are excited to be backing Manex AI on their mission to enable autonomous manufacturing.

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Join our team as Head of Communications / PR (Full-Time or Part-Time) BlueYard backs founders building fabric layer technologies that will underpin a world yet to come. The world feels full of potential — yet…

Join our team as Head of Communications / PR to lead and evolve BlueYard’s communication strategy and help unlock the powerful narratives emerging from the fabric layer technologies we back. blueyard.medium.com/join-our-tea...

Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans to use AI inside WhatsApp groups | TechCrunch Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On

AI is going to redefine human relationships - love & hate, joy & sorrow, humour & cringe. Grouphug is exploring the intersection of human group interactions and AI. We are excited to be backing Felix Petersen & team on their new mission:

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Live Coding with Quint YouTube video by BlueYard Capital

Join @chadfowler.bsky.social on April 16th for a livestream with Gabriela Moreira, Lead Quint Developer Informal Systems. Quint is a modern specification language built to increase trust in software.

🗓️ Wednesday, April 16 | 11am EDT
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Germany’s Marvel Fusion raises €113mn as nuclear fusion race heats up EQT Ventures and Siemens Energy among new backers in Munich-based start-up’s latest funding round

Congratulations to Marvel Fusion on the successful $120M raise - a key milestone that brings total funding to $415M. We are excited to continue supporting their quest to commercialize fusion-enabled baseload energy to power the world’s clean energy future.

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The American Dynamism 50: Companies Shaping the Fight of the Future | Andreessen Horowitz These 50 companies aren’t just strengthening our ability to avoid conflict, they’re re-industrializing America in the process.

Excited to see Castelion and AnySignal featured as two of the companies shaping the fight of the future in a16z's latest American Dynamism 50.

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AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future Better batteries, cleaner bioplastics and more powerful semiconductors await

Thrilled to see VSPARTICLE featured in The Economist for shaping the future of AI-driven materials discovery & creation!

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Miren Cloud computing hasn’t seen a fundamental upgrade since Amazon launched EC2 in 2006. Software development is fundamentally changing in the…

We are excited to be backing veteran open source infrastructure developer Evan Phoenix and Miren on their journey to deliver cloud computing’s first major upgrade in decades.

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We are excited to continue supporting Cryptio on their mission to ensure financial integrity within the crypto economy. Read more about their $25m Series A financing and launch of their Bedrock data platform: blog.cryptio.co/cryptio-rais...

“The games of money tend not to be sensitive to evidence ... if we create a game that permits both money & evidence to exist simultaneously, then maybe we also get to create a new type of economic system on top of that.”

full convo w/ @chadfowler.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/FVz11m6...

Congrats Meatable for being recognized as one of Time's Best Inventions of 2024 – for its mission to create a sustainable & post-animal economy.

Live in 90mins: @chadfowler.bsky.social & Connor McCormick discuss the next socioeconomic system.

Will Mars be a democratic republic? Or can we do better? Connor outlines a criteria for governance systems and describes a possible approach to achieve it.

🎬 www.youtube.com/live/FVz11m6...

Join @chadfowler.bsky.social, Tom Walton-Pocock, and Tim Robinson for a conversation on the importance of private state blockchains to crypto’s adoption, new technologies coming online in 2024, and the limitations / constraints developers may face.

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We are excited to be backing Infinex on their mission to unlock the full potential of DeFi through a transformative, user-focused experience.

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Join Seref Yarar, co-founder @ Index Network, and
@chadfowler.bsky.social tomorrow for a livestream on building a decentralized protocol for user-centric discovery.

🗓️ Tuesday, Sept 17th at 2:00pm ET

🎦 Streaming live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/BUOv-jk...

BlueYard Crypto 3: backing the ultimate capital x compute coordination machine with our latest $75m… As we began to deploy our 3rd dedicated crypto fund, BlueYard Crypto 3* (raised last year), we took a step back to reflect on our thesis…

BlueYard Crypto 3: backing the ultimate capital x compute coordination machine with our latest $75m early-stage crypto fund.

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Join Tim Robinson and @chadfowler.bsky.social for a livestream exploring how liquidity can be made to flow seamlessly and automatically throughout the Ethereum L2 ecosystem.

🗓️ Thursday, June 27th: 9:30am ET / 3:30pm CET

🎦 Streaming live on youtube: www.youtube.com/live/OWA_gcC...

We're pleased to welcome Tom Walton-Pocock and Benjamin Levy, some of the deepest thinkers on the fundamentals of crypto and the chasms it still has to cross, as our new Venture Partners.

Join Our Team as a Crypto Associate Backing open-ended breakthrough research is at the core of BlueYard’s investing philosophy, whether it’s nuclear fusion, programmable stem…

Join our team as a Crypto Associate – backing entrepreneurs that are solving critical crypto compute and infrastructure challenges.

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The Technical Architecture of Fluence Join Fluence's CTO, Dmitry Kurinskiy, for a walkthrough of Fluence's motivation and the

Join Fluence's CTO / Co-Founder Dmitry Kurinskiy and host Chad Fowler for a walkthrough of Fluence's motivation and the "cloudless" computing architecture they have launched.

🗓 Friday April 12th: 10am ET / 4pm CET

📽 Streaming live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/Zt-4x5f...

Announcing the BlueYard DYOR (Do Your Own Research) Funding Program Backing open-ended breakthrough research is at the core of BlueYard’s investing philosophy, whether it’s nuclear fusion, programmable stem…

We’re offering $100k to thoughtful researchers and builders to better understand and unlock crypto’s potential as the ultimate capital x compute x data x algorithms coordination system. More details on BlueYard DYOR and application below.

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Ingonyama Ingonyama is developing hardware to speed up zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic scheme that secures much of web3 and is a critical…

We are excited to be backing Ingonyama on their mission ​​to democratize the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

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Kiln Crypto token staking is a rapidly growing multi-billion market, set for further rapid expansion as more Proof of Stake (PoS) becomes the de…

We are excited to be investing in Kiln again and continuing to support their mission to democratize access to crypto staking for both institutions and retail

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