Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with @Lightspeedvp. Tweets never investment advice.
Dark Forest
Joined June 2021
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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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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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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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Introducing Automated Settlement Financing on VisaNet
One of the most trusted names in payments, @Visa is bringing onchain credit into stablecoin-linked card settlement, powered by Credit Coop.
Individual capital. Institutional access.
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Thrilled to announce a $12.5M strategic investment to meet accelerating demand for crypto wallets and verifiable computing.
With participation from @circle_ventures, @archetypevc, and existing investors @BainCapCrypto, @FactionVC, @galaxyhq, @sequoia, and @variantfund.
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Thrilled to announce the $44M Series A to scale the onchain economy ⚓
Backed by Sumitomo Corporation's CVC arm, @snzholding, @chainlink, @FlowTraders, and some of the undisclosed giants in global finance 🏛️
Pharos is building the financial-grade infrastructure to bridge TradFi and DeFi at a global scale 🌐
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Hello World!
Latitude is live.
We built stablecoin-to-local-fiat infrastructure across 50+ countries so businesses can move money globally at a flat 0.5% rate, with no hidden spreads or volume commitments.
Global payments are broken. We're fixing the rails.
$8M seed led by NEA. Team from Uber, Coinbase, Stripe, and more.
Full story in Fortune (in comments)
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There are two ways to touch 8 billion lives: acquire 8 billion individual customers, or build the infrastructure for the institutions that already serve them.
We chose the latter.
Today we're announcing OpenFX’s $94M Series A from @Accel, @atomico, @FactionVC, @M13Company , @northzoneVC, @PanteraCapital, and with support from existing investors @flybridge and @hash3xyz.
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Over a decade ago at Uber, we were paying drivers across 40 countries. Their top ask: "Pay me faster." That stuck with me through Coinbase and Stripe, where I kept running into the same wall from different angles.
Today, Latitude (@rtp) is launching out of stealth. We raised an $8M seed round in Jan 2025 and have been building quietly since then.
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OpenMind builds AI brains for robots across all form factors.
Today, OM1 runs on the @LimX_Dynamics Tron 1, enabling it to move and socialize fully autonomously.
Our universal infrastructure allows developers to build applications without needing to learn the intricacies of specific robot models, paving the way for mass robot adoption.
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$10M up for RealFi builders!
Pharos Builder Incubator is now open – offering funding, technical mentorship, go-to-market guidance, and access to investors for projects building on-chain RealFi
Apply: pharos.xyz/ecosystem
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Starting 2026 with a milestone: PhotonPay has successfully closed our Series B funding round! 🚀
The world’s financial borders are fading. We are building the next-gen infrastructure to unify the efficiency of #Stablecoins with the trust of TradFi. 🌍
Our global roadmap:
🔹 Global Liquidity: Expanding multi-currency rails to bridge emerging & established economies.
🔹 Unified Stack: Instant, programmable, and borderless fund movements at scale.
🔹 Standard-Setting: Leading the way in global licensing & regulatory excellence.
Grateful for the support of our world-class investors: @IDGCapital, Hillhouse, @EnlightCapital, @FactionVC, and @shoplazzacom.
The future of global value movement is here. 🏁
#PhotonPay #SeriesB #GlobalFintech #Fintech #SeriesB #Web3Payments #GlobalPayments
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Huge announcement from the TRES team! Today, TRES has been acquired by @FireblocksHQ!
Together, we now complete the first complete operating system for digital assets.
TRES brings accounting, reporting, and controls to onchain activity - built for auditability, scale, and real-world financial operations. Today, more than 200 leading companies across traditional finance and digital assets rely on TRES to deliver compliant, audit-ready financial records.
@FireblocksHQ is the trusted infrastructure institutions use to build, operate, and scale digital asset businesses. With TRES, those operations now extend seamlessly into accurate, contextualised, compliant records that meet enterprise standards - bringing operations and back-office finance into a single system.
Michael Shaulov, Co-founder and CEO of Fireblocks:
“With digital assets now part of day-to-day financial operations, both crypto-native firms and traditional institutions need clear, accurate accounting and auditability. Crypto companies must meet higher standards around tax reporting and disclosures, while banks and fintechs need reconciliation and controls that align with their existing ERP and ledger systems. By bringing TRES into the Fireblocks ecosystem, customers can now run both their operations and their back-office finance on one secure, compliant, and scalable stack.”
Together, Fireblocks and TRES form the foundational infrastructure for an onchain financial world.
🔗 Read the @FortuneMagazine article: fortune.com/2026/01/07/fireb…
🔗 Read our CEO’s blog: tres.finance/a-defining-mome…
🔗 Read Fireblocks’ announcement: fireblocks.com/company-news-…
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The infrastructure layer and the finance layer were disconnected.
Not anymore.
Fireblocks has acquired @TresDotFinance to deliver the first unified operating system for digital assets.
Here's what changes →
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Introducing the Arc Builders Fund
Backing teams building the next wave of real-world financial apps and services on Arc, the Economic OS for the internet.
The Arc Builders Fund provides capital, an investor network, and direct access to Arc’s core teams, helping builders go from first deployment to product-market fit faster.
Whether it’s credit, FX, payments, or agentic commerce, we’re looking for teams solving problems that demand Arc’s unique architecture:
→ Deterministic sub-second finality
→ Low, predictable stablecoin-based gas
→ Opt-in configurable privacy
Build the next era of finance with us: circle.com/blog/introducing-…
Note: For informational purposes only and not related to fundraising. “Arc Builders Fund” is a Circle Ventures corporate initiative; no fund or vehicle is being formed. Circle Ventures is not an investment adviser or broker-dealer. Investor Network members make independent decisions.
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Strata is excited to announce a $3 million seed round, led by Maven 11, to build the risk-tranching layer of DeFi.
Strata is a generalized risk-tranching protocol that brings structured products to any on-chain or off-chain strategy by splitting them into tokenized senior and junior tranches, each tailored to distinct risk–reward profiles.
With @Maven11Capital leading the round and @FactionVC as a major investor—alongside participation from @halo__xyz, @HeartcoreCap, @nayt_tech, and @Anchorage, as well as angels from @apg_capital, @SplitCapital and @FourPillarsFP—Strata is redefining how on-chain and off-chain strategies are accessed, managed, and scaled across DeFi.
