Vangrid’s mission needs more than a big vision. It needs people who know how to turn complex technology into real-world infrastructure.
That’s where the team comes in.
Robert Brighton, CEO, brings 10 years of experience building go-to-market strategies and revenue across deep tech and Web3, including work with Microsoft’s Quantum Computing and HoloLens groups in Europe.
Khalid Benrafik, CTO, brings 14+ years of experience building distributed, high-throughput systems. At Booking.com, ING and Mollie, he gained experience building infrastructure supporting millions of users and over $1B in annual transactions.
One brings deep tech and commercial experience. The other brings years of building systems at scale.
Together, they bring experience directly relevant to Vangrid’s mission.
Based in Amsterdam and a member of NVIDIA Inception, @vangrid_io is building with a team that understands both technology and the infrastructure needed to support it.
🤝 Paid partnership
Physical AI needs real-world data. Now AI agents can help request it.
That’s what makes @vangrid_io interesting.
Vangrid is moving beyond the idea of crowdsourced spatial data. Agents can now post capture bounties, pay in USDC, and request real-world locations to be captured by humans.
The workflow is simple:
→ An agent requests a location
→ A human captures it
→ The data is reconstructed into a 3D model
→ The agent receives the result
And the network is already showing activity.
A recent public report put Vangrid’s settlements at $485K+, with agent-driven bounty activity already underway across Base and Arc.
That’s a meaningful step toward connecting AI agents with the physical world.
Because smarter models don’t just need more digital information. They need accurate, up-to-date data from reality itself.
Vangrid is building that connection, with onchain activity people can independently verify.
The next phase of AI may need more than intelligence. It may need eyes on the ground
Physical AI needs more than smarter models.
It needs real-world data.
That’s where @vangrid_io gets interesting.
Imagine an AI agent paying a human in USDC to visit a specific location, capture the environment, and return a 3D model the agent can use.
That’s the idea behind Vangrid.
Smartphones become a distributed capture network, turning real places into valuable spatial data for robots, world models, and embodied AI.
The bigger picture?
Agents won’t just process information. They’ll be able to pay for services that connect them to the physical world.
Vangrid is building that bridge.
The grid is inevitable.
🤝 Paid partnership
Physical AI has a data problem.
Robots and world models don’t just need more internet data.
They need fresh, ground-level data from the real world the places machines are actually expected to understand and navigate.
That’s where @vangrid_io gets interesting.
Vangrid turns smartphones into a distributed capture network, allowing real-world 3D data to be collected on demand for specific places.
Instead of relying only on static datasets, the network can continuously build a richer picture of physical environments.
And with onchain provenance, that physical-world data can be coordinated and verified.
As robotics, world models and embodied AI accelerate, access to real-world spatial data could become one of the biggest infrastructure bottlenecks.
@vangrid_io is building for that layer.
Your phone can be more than a phone.
It can become a node for Physical AI.
🤝 Paid partnership
If you’ve been trading for a while, you might already have something waiting for you on Zaps.
@zerufinance 's Zaps looks at your wallet history and gives you a starting zaps balance based on your past activity.
No need to make a new trade just to check.
Connect the wallets you actually trade with - check your zaps - see your score - and start earning from qualifying activity.
There’s also a $50K Ditto trading competition for those who want to compete, plus Clans where you can grow alongside your community.
And higher zaps balances can also matter for access to the planned 3,333-supply Zerus freemint, subject to the announced allocation criteria.
The first step is simple:
Check what your trading history has already unlocked.
- zaps.wtf/
Then join a Clan and keep building your zaps.
🤝 Paid partnership
Crypto made sending money permissionless.
But the way we tell the network where to send it still feels stuck in the past.
A long wallet address is just a string of characters.
We can copy the wrong one.
Paste the wrong one.
Or simply miss something while checking it.
Send-to-Name™ changes the interaction.
With @Americanfort_io , you can start with a readable FortressName such as @alice instead of manually handling a long wallet address.
The name becomes the thing you interact with.
Then the @Americanfort_io protocol handles the addressing underneath, deriving a fresh address for that specific payment from keys held by the sender and recipient.
So you don’t have to think in terms of:
Did I paste the exact right address?
You interact with who you’re paying.
The infrastructure handles where the payment goes.
And the transaction still settles normally on the native chain.
That’s a small change to the interface, but a meaningful change to how crypto payments can feel.
Send-to-Name™ is live you can claim your free lifetime .free FortressName
names.americanfortress.io .
🤝 Paid partnership
When you’re sending crypto, even a small mistake in a long wallet address can become a very expensive mistake.
42-digit address isn’t exactly easy to read, remember, or verify character by character.
That’s where @Americanfort_io takes a different approach with Send-to-Name™.
Instead of asking you to work with a long string of characters, you can send to a readable FortressName.
You interact with the name.
Underneath, the sender and recipient use their keys to derive a fresh address for that specific payment.
So the complexity of addressing happens behind the interface, while the payment still settles normally on the native blockchain.
Send-to-Name™ is live across 13 integrated networks.
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