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1kx has been named to @TIME's America's Top Venture Capital Firms 2026, compiled with @StatistaCharts.
We have spent eight years underwriting blockchain technology on fundamentals: the infrastructure, the applications built on it, and onchain finance as it moves from experiment to market structure. The list measures firms on fundraising, investment activity, performance and leadership, and we are glad the work holds up on those terms.
Credit belongs to the founders building at this frontier, and to the LPs who have committed across cycles with us.
Full list below.
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Deployment of agentic AI is no longer bottlenecked by capability, but rather on security & trust.
New piece in the @1kxnetwork cost of trust series: 20+ security incidents, 50+ products, and 100+ academic papers condensed and mapped onto a four-layer architecture.
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Cost of Trust 2.0, the full conversation.
Where the frame holds in financial infrastructure. Where it gets repriced at the AI edge. Where the next category gets built.
Plus, where the thesis has evolved since the 2018 paper.
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The Cost of Trust 2.0 framework, applied to a $9 trillion category.
@nichanank on the rewiring of trade finance: stablecoin rails compressing correspondent banking rent (340bps on lower-value flows) and opening dollar access where banks structurally cannot reach.
The seven-layer trade stack, the MLETR regulatory gating analysis, and where we are investing.
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The useful version of an AI agent is also the risky one.
It can read private context, take in outside inputs, and act.
In this clip, 1kx Partner @_weidai explains why that combination makes prompt injection much more than a chatbot problem.
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