CMO @CambrianNetwork // marketing, AI, storytelling, brand & memes. fmr product marketing @graphprotocol. ask me for food recs. 🗣️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇹🇵🇹🇪🇸🇫🇷

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many marketers will tell you the best storytelling revolves around founders, not brands. on @CambrianNetwork's first product launch day, i'd like to share some lore on how *this* founder is built different when i started talking to @0xsamgreen in 2022 it became immediately clear to me he had a special prescience only attainable through a genuine love for lifelong learning it's this attribute that has led to many firsts in his life - like co-leading the first reinforcement learning course at UCSB, or developing the first agentic copilot in DeFi when Sam first discussed working on @CambrianNetwork, it sounded less like a job and more like a seat at a prestigious university. and brother, do i love to learn. it was a privilege to join the team. his conviction in agentic finance was the strongest signal of where the future was headed. and since Cambrian was founded in 2024, he's been spot on. prescient. as Cambrian's marketer and brand builder, i deliberately chose to embed Sam's love for academia, science, natural history, and techno-optimist futurism into the Cambrian brand - going so far as to work with plant molecular biologist @NickDesnoyer on early artwork. you can see this DNA all over cambrian.org and the video below fast forward to product launch planning time. i knew it'd be more compelling to hear from the founder himself than an abstract brand account, so we planned Sam's first-ever launch video. i hope his conviction is as clear to you as it is to the rest of our team!
I've never recorded a video announcement before. But after 15 years of working in AI and 1.5 years heads down building @CambrianNetwork, I wanted to share this news myself. I'm proud to announce the public launch of the Cambrian API, which you can try free on cambrian.org In 2024, while building an AI copilot for trading, I became convinced that the future of finance would be increasingly operated by agents. I also realized that existing data solutions were far from meeting the needs of a burgeoning industry called agentic finance. So I assembled a team of data, infrastructure, and finance veterans, earned support from @a16zcrypto @Polychain @FTDA_US and many other amazing investors, and embarked on a mission to build the world's financial intelligence layer. Today, the Cambrian API is out of beta. It's the best source of onchain and offchain signal for AI agents and institutions to make winning financial decisions, such as: - Smarter trading strategies - Automated yield-maximization - Social sentiment-based trades - Risk analyses & much more Start using it for free and scale as your needs grow.
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i submit myself to the Argentinian authorities for the great crime of making chocotorta into a high-protein, low-sugar “healthy” food with unspeakable ingredients
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decent flight tip: ask gemini which gate [your flight number] historically departs from. saved me from running across the airport 30 mins before the gate was listed on the screens (it was right)
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madrid food report. top 4 bites on this trip in no particular order 1) zamburiña, baby scallop. served with a garlic and olive oil emulsion, garnished with some parsley and crispy shallot. divine bite. chef should have separated the meat from the shell tho 2) presa de ibérico, grilled pork shoulder. the cool thing about ibérico is you can eat it medium or medium rare like a steak. i normally don’t eat pork but will make an exception for what is essentially the wagyu of pork. nice demi-glace and paper-thin zucchini w lemon 3) focaccia sandwich w thin-ass mortadella, stracciatella and pistachio pesto. the crackly, wispy crust really put the bread on another plane of existence. not greasy at all like most focach’. it ain’t spanish food but the small chain was created in spain. probably best sandwich of this style of my life 4) pistachio chocolate croissant. i was prepared to take one bite and cringe because so many bakeries make these cloyingly sweet. but not this one. the pistachio was salted and super roasty. the chocolate was velvety and dark, not palm oil sugar slop. gud cronch. made by a serbian pâtissier who’s lived the last 13 years in spain, nice dude
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gmail's ai spellcheck will arbitrarily underline random strings of text in the email you're drafting only to suggest substitutions that completely remove any semblance of a personality in your words
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brian 🪴 retweeted
UPDATED: The Agentic Finance Landscape for Q3 2026. Is your favorite project listed? Agentic finance now makes headlines weekly. The term is gaining popularity among major financial institutions and global governing bodies. It’s wild to see this reality after launching the AgentFi Report series last year. Our team painstakingly researched, tested, and filtered hundreds of agents in the last few months. Most agents did not make it into our latest report. We name only the most legitimate projects, along with emerging trends, so you can prepare yourself accordingly for the future of finance. Check out the latest cohort of the AgentFi Landscape 🧵
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The Great Convergence: the merging of AI, DeFi, and TradFi. I spent the last few months meticulously researching and defining what is quickly becoming the rebirth of finance on modern technological rails. It’s a trillion-dollar opportunity. Several billions have already poured in. 🧵
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made a wifeguy macchiato, for my wife
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every day at least 1 person somewhere in the world forces AI Will Smith to eat a bowl of AI spaghetti and i think this must weigh heavy on the real Will’s soul
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jason is a must-follow to stay on the bleeding edge of futuristic finance
Institutions that have brought assets onchain since my tweet claiming "every asset will be a crypto asset": Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation State Street Investment Management Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations London Stock Exchange Group Broadridge Financial Solutions Banque Cantonale Vaudoise European Investment Bank Intercontinental Exchange New York Stock Exchange Bank of New York Mellon Dubai Land Department S&P Dow Jones Indices European Central Bank Deutsche Bundesbank Zürcher Kantonalbank First Abu Dhabi Bank Temple Digital Group Prometheum Capital Fidelity International Qatar National Bank Fidelity Investments Standard Chartered Franklin Templeton Raiffeisen Schweiz Forward Industries Citadel Securities StepStone Group Société Générale Swiss Stablecoin Cross River Bank Intesa Sanpaolo Deutsche Börse Goldman Sachs Computershare Velocity Capital FirstRand Bank Deutsche Bank Hamilton Lane Virtu Financial Ondo Finance Itaú Unibanco Sygnum Bank MembersCap Flow Traders BNP Paribas WisdomTree PostFinance MUFG Bank Lloyds Bank Clearstream DriveWealth Apex Group Memo Bank Wells Fargo NRW BANK Nodal Clear CME Group Mastercard J.P. Morgan Matrixdock EJF Capital Robinhood Superstate Lead Bank BlackRock SBI Group Santander DekaBank DBS Bank Cecabank Tradeweb BayernLB Securitize Vanguard ABANCA Mashreq DZ Bank Obligate FalconX Binance Keyrock Allfunds Nasdaq Invesco Kraken TWINT Archax Galaxy Alpaca Brink’s OCBC Ripple HSBC Marex BBVA Circle BitGo DRW Talos Swift UOB SoFi UBS ANZ Visa SIX Citi Believe in something.
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being a marketer in the age of ai is so much fun, and it’s just so fluid to iterate on ideas. behind this post is a few transcripts of calls with the team, a vision in my head written into a storyboard, playing with suno and editing in audacity to make a funky retrowave beat, cooking with a teammate who uses remotion. a mix of manual finesse and prompt magic for a sweet mini launch video
Candles are the lifeblood of any exceptional trader 🕯️ Announcing OHLCV data is now live for @base & @ethereum via the Cambrian API. You’re never going to beat the market prompting a general-purpose LLM. You need to feed your agent an edge. Technical analysis (TA) is one way to get there. Many TA methods require OHLCV. Use candle & volume data to compute analyses like moving averages, support/resistance, RSI & more. Secret for success: Send your agent this post. Have it read the Cambrian API docs. Start building winning financial strategies. (p.s., @solana OHLCV has been available since launch)
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in other words: a godsend for undiagnosed adhd
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it's the age of agentic finance. don't become a financially oneshotted npc
"How will anyone make profits when everyone uses AI to trade?" It’s a good question. I did some research earlier this year showing that, given the same basic data and the same basic question, all models will recommend the same trade In the next few years, many traders will fall into traps like this: the CFO of your favorite company will write their quarterly earnings report and tune their writing to subtly exploit the psychological biases of the latest models. Your financial copilot will read the report and be nudged by the writing. Hedge funds will predict the nudge and move before you and thousands of others. Retail will then flock into or out of the same trade. That activity will then trigger momentum-based strategies, amplifying the effect. Prices will no longer reflect the company's value. You'll probably be fine if you're investing long term. If you're trading, you may get wrecked. There is no easy solution. For sure, you'll want: * to be as informed as possible and ask the best questions aligned with your investment goals * to have access to as much information on the asset, market, and economy as possible * to be using the best model you can (or the fastest if your strategy is sensitive to time) In the next few weeks, I'll dive into these details as I cover a fantastic paper, "The Algorithmic Market Hypothesis: Information Efficiency in the Age of AI".
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“you’re a machine” went from being a compliment to an accusation over the last few years
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brother I am NOT a cl*nker
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everything you saw play out with last cycle’s wave of L1s will repeat itself with today’s sea of AI labs
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does this happen to everyone or is it just a skill issue
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argentina is incredible bc what do you mean you had decades of immigration from culinary powerhouses like spain and italy.. and yet the avg argentinian’s favorite dish is essentially a gigantic chicken tendie
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billions and billions in TVL keep getting added to @CambrianNetwork’s financial intelligence stack must feed the agents only the best
$4.5+ billion worth of TVL lives on @sparkfinance’s SparkLend. As of today, all that lending data is agent-readable via the Cambrian API. Our newest endpoint provides the deepest financial intelligence on SparkLend pools, helping you or your agent discover the protocol’s best yield opportunities. Yieldmaxx with superior intelligence. Get started for free with the cambrian.org API
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ethereum has long been the king of DeFi, capturing more TVL and lending activity than other chains (and most chains combined) now your agent can identify financial opportunities like yieldmaxxing thanks to the latest @CambrianNetwork release
Financial intelligence has arrived to @ethereum Ethereum holds more DeFi TVL than every other chain combined. Most of onchain lending lives there too. But navigating its financial data in pursuit of yield and alpha has notoriously been a headache. Until now. The Cambrian API now pulls real-time and historical DEX, token, and price intelligence, in addition to real-time lending data from Ethereum. Start making winning financial decisions on mainnet.
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brian 🪴 retweeted
Lesson to founders: invest in habits to build your product exponentially faster. We spent 1.5 years perfecting production-grade data for Base and Solana. Just 2 weeks after launch, thanks to our architecture and agentic workflows, we went live with ETH mainnet support. We'll be adding more chains, protocols, and analytical endpoints in the coming weeks. I'm proud of our 10-person team. They've built an extensible, high-performance system while also managing infra costs.
Financial intelligence has arrived to @ethereum Ethereum holds more DeFi TVL than every other chain combined. Most of onchain lending lives there too. But navigating its financial data in pursuit of yield and alpha has notoriously been a headache. Until now. The Cambrian API now pulls real-time and historical DEX, token, and price intelligence, in addition to real-time lending data from Ethereum. Start making winning financial decisions on mainnet.
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