Software is being commoditized. The value is moving into hardware - the hardest thing in the world to fund. Crypto is the only place where you can build in public, prove you're doing something real, and raise the capital to build it without a pedigree, without permission. The ICO era proved it. Memes proved it in their own way - and every idea is a meme, until it is not Now hardware and its enablers get the same rails We built @machinedotfun to replicate this for builders Because three things changed at once: - Crypto VC pulled back. The capital that was there a year ago isn't today - Hardware was never the easy bet - harder, slower, and for two decades the upside sat in software - Private rounds quietly work against the project. Vesting overhangs, unlock schedules, round after round - the price ends up set by when funds need to take profit, not by what the team ships A new type of builder needs a new mechanism So what belongs here: - Anything that touches hardware - robots, sensors, cameras, DePIN devices - Software built to advance the machine economy - training data, annotation, robotics tooling - The wider hardware realm - EV charging, drones, mobility, wearables And what we won't pretend: this is very early-stage exposure. Many projects launching here will fail. That's venture We're not endorsing Foundry projects on day one. We support them in the background, and the brand goes behind a token only once it's earned The trade we're offering is the chance to see something like a Unitree in the first inches of its formation Both sides of that come together