Optic
Pre-seedA local-first tool for auditing your own digital identity, currently raising.
x11n.com — speculative venture studio
Xenostition tests whether an idea is real by building it as if it already were. Some of what follows is fully funded. Some of it is a single page and a Stripe key. The institute does not distinguish between the two until the world does.
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A local-first tool for auditing your own digital identity, currently raising.
A running count of every dollar on Earth that is currently up for grabs.
The strategy behind the strategy behind holding Bitcoin on a corporate balance sheet.
A case for continuity banking — infrastructure built to outlive the institutions running it.
A verifiable-compute network proving language-model inference can be bitwise deterministic, economics modeled, raise underway.
Read the whitepaper summaryName anything. An AI prices it, a crowd funds it, you eventually receive it.
Strange systems, built on the idea that ‘evil’ just means refusing to be naive.
Open rolesConverts dead malls and big-box stores into affordable housing. A mall and a Walmart are already on the target list.
A research studio on human augmentation and altered states, running its first published study.
Engineering and physical-product ventures. We touch the hard part.
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