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The talent pool in crypto feels perpetually thin.
There are only ~50-100 top people on the market at any given time -- and everyone is fighting for the same people.
In parallel, some of the best talent with experience in crypto has either (1) retired or (2) started their own company.
Meanwhile, the influx of new talent into the space is relatively low. We're starting to see it from payments/TradFi world, but these folks are learning crypto from 0 to 1 and it'll take a few months to ramp.
The net result: a very thin, competitive talent pool. Max pain.
Has been this way for 2-3 years and will continue unless we find a way to expand the pool and/or attract more folks from web2 tech.
Jake Kerr (jakerr.eth) retweeted
As reported in the @WSJ, we have raised a Series B to bring Hermes Agent to new frontiers (and, yes, build a mobile app)
Thank you to our investors including @nvidia @M12vc @SamsungNext @robotventures @usv @ycombinator @MenloVentures, among others
wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/…
sharing my thoughts on our recent fundraise.
we did alright for a couple of goofballs
nousresearch.com/a-note-on-o…
Jake Kerr (jakerr.eth) retweeted
We're bringing stablecoins into the banking system with @Citi.
That means instant stablecoin acceptance for institutions - all on bank-grade, regulated infrastructure.
The next step for stablecoins becoming everyday money.
LATEST: Open USD, the stablecoin project backed by Mastercard, Visa and Stripe, went live on Wednesday on Ethereum, Solana, Base and Tempo as an Open Standard targets payments, banking, settlement and institutional trading in a stablecoin market still dominated by USDT and USDC.
coindesk.com/business/2026/0…
Jake Kerr (jakerr.eth) retweeted
Brian Chesky's reference check, in order
▫️make it off the record
▫️ask who's the best they've worked with
▫️watch if they say YOUR candidate's name
that's the whole interview
We're publishing a technical deep dive on Tempo's privacy solution.
Tempo Zones are private execution environments that keep transactions and balances private while preserving access to liquidity on mainnet through exchanges, onramps and DeFi.
Here's how they work:
Patrick Collison's advice to people in their 20s: find where the highest standards are, and go experience them firsthand.
"When I talk to people in other domains, this is so frequently the thing that I hear from them."
"That when they worked with X person or Y organization or in Z environment, they learned what great actually is, and that just permanently changed their sense for what their own standard for their work ought to be."
"Maybe one version of what people in their twenties should do is... figure out, where can you learn the highest standards? Where are the highest standards embodied, and where can you go and experience that firsthand?"
@patrickc w/ @dwarkesh_sp (Feb 2024)
Jake Kerr (jakerr.eth) retweeted
🚨JUST IN: Apple hints at adding stablecoin support, potentially allowing CRYPTO payments via Apple Pay.
Apple posted a job listing requiring stablecoin expertise for payment roles, offering up to $280,000.
This follows Samsung’s plans to introduce the same feature to Samsung Wallet.
Together, Apple and Samsung have more than 3.5 BILLION active devices worldwide.
Jake Kerr (jakerr.eth) retweeted
🚨 TODAY: The SEC issued an order granting temporary, conditional exemptive relief to Tokenized Securities Venues from the definition of “exchange” in the Exchange Act to trade tokenized NMS stock using innovative permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools.
Jake Kerr (jakerr.eth) retweeted
*one* *line* *of* *code* @rauchg 🚀
Tako now searches the web alongside trillions of licensed, structured data points and returns both in a single call.
We’re partnering with @vercel to make Tako Search free in Vercel AI Gateway for the rest of September.
One line of code gives your agent the web + structured data in a single tool call - fully managed and transparently billed through Vercel AI Gateway.
Combining web + data makes our APIs are 38% more accurate, 13X faster, 90% more token efficient than other web search APIs.
Tako now searches the web alongside trillions of licensed, structured data points and returns both in a single call.
We’re partnering with @vercel to make Tako Search free in Vercel AI Gateway for the rest of September.
One line of code gives your agent the web + structured data in a single tool call - fully managed and transparently billed through Vercel AI Gateway.
Combining web + data makes our APIs are 38% more accurate, 13X faster, 90% more token efficient than other web search APIs.
Jake Kerr (jakerr.eth) retweeted
Tako is in Vercel AI Gateway! With one line of code you can get websearch and our data index in one place.
Swap us in as your websearch tool to unlock unparalleled accuracy and efficiency.
+ transparent billing and no infra to manage because @rauchg and @vercel want us all to have pure intelligence at our clankertips
At some point, a guy will jump out of a manhole cover in SF ... screaming, "I am from the future! Don't let the robots loose, they'll take over!"
And you won't be 100% sure if he's actually from the future or if it's just a guy on drugs. But it'll be convincing.
Come build alien technology with @NousResearch ... bring Hermes Agent to the masses
We're hiring @NousResearch
The work is hard and the stakes are high. Help us build a different future.
Software Engineer
Software Engineer, Product
Software Engineer, Hermes Cloud
UI/UX Designer
and more:
nousresearch.com/careers
Jake Kerr (jakerr.eth) retweeted
JUST IN: Chainlink co-founder @SergeyNazarov speaks at the podium during today's technology leaders event at the @WhiteHouse