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Y Combinator

107,774 views • 5 months ago

Real-time world models represent a fundamental shift in AI. reactor is building the platform for real-time generative video infrastructure, supporting developers who need the tech for use across entertainment, physical AI, and robotics. Co-founders Alberto and Bryce Schmidtchen joined us last week on The Investment Memo, hosted by Partners Bucky Moore and Amber Yang, to talk about the era of world models. The conversation centered around the infrastructure Reactor is building, why real-time models are the edge right now, and current use cases for the product. Alberto and Bryce agreed that world models are shaping the way simulations are created, and that developers need a streamlined platform that can support their ideas. We believe Reactor is positioned to be at the frontier of research into real-time generative models. We look forward to seeing how these models apply across industries. Chapters 00:00 Introduction & Overview of Reactor 01:08 Meet the Hosts & Founders 02:18 The Origin Story: From 3D Assets to World Models 05:07 Real-Time Video Applications Across Industries 06:55 The Open Source World Model Explosion 07:23 Why Infrastructure Is the Opportunity 08:42 Parallels to Past Technology Waves 09:51 Bridging the Research-to-Production Gap 13:13 What Developers Are Building with World Models 16:41 Lessons from Luma AI 18:23 What Apple Vision Pro Taught Bryce About Real-Time Systems 20:48 Company Values & Team Culture 22:40 Series A: What the Capital Unlocks 24:13 Reactor's Five-Year Vision 26:09 Closing Remarks
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Real-time world models represent a fundamental shift in AI. reactor is building the platform for real-time generative video infrastructure, supporting developers who need the tech for use across entertainment, physical AI, and robotics. Co-founders Alberto and Bryce Schmidtchen joined us last week on The Investment Memo, hosted by Partners Bucky Moore and Amber Yang, to talk about the era of world models. The conversation centered around the infrastructure Reactor is building, why real-time models are the edge right now, and current use cases for the product. Alberto and Bryce agreed that world models are shaping the way simulations are created, and that developers need a streamlined platform that can support their ideas. We believe Reactor is positioned to be at the frontier of research into real-time generative models. We look forward to seeing how these models apply across industries. Chapters 00:00 Introduction & Overview of Reactor 01:08 Meet the Hosts & Founders 02:18 The Origin Story: From 3D Assets to World Models 05:07 Real-Time Video Applications Across Industries 06:55 The Open Source World Model Explosion 07:23 Why Infrastructure Is the Opportunity 08:42 Parallels to Past Technology Waves 09:51 Bridging the Research-to-Production Gap 13:13 What Developers Are Building with World Models 16:41 Lessons from Luma AI 18:23 What Apple Vision Pro Taught Bryce About Real-Time Systems 20:48 Company Values & Team Culture 22:40 Series A: What the Capital Unlocks 24:13 Reactor's Five-Year Vision 26:09 Closing Remarks

Lightspeed

144,942 views • 2 months ago

Crypto wallets are no longer just wallets. They’re the front door to a decentralized internet. In this episode, Phantom CEO Brandon Millman joins a16z crypto Investment Partner Jay Drain and host Robert Hackett to unpack how crypto wallets are evolving into full-blown consumer finance platforms — and why they may be the most credible candidates to become the internet’s next super apps. We explore Phantom’s journey from a Solana-first wallet to a multi-chain platform, why wallets are uniquely positioned to win trust around money, and how features like onchain trading, perps, social feeds, prediction markets, and payments are reshaping what people expect from a consumer finance app. The conversation also dives into: - Why starting with finance may be a better path to a super app than starting with social - How Phantom thinks about UX, trust, and security in crypto - The rise of perpetual futures (perps) and prediction markets - What the FTX collapse meant for Solana — and the counterintuitive silver lining - Whether AI agents could one day replace apps and browsers If you’re curious about where crypto, fintech, and consumer apps are headed next — and why wallets may become the most important interface on the internet — this episode is for you. with Brandon Millman jay Robert Hackett
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Crypto wallets are no longer just wallets. They’re the front door to a decentralized internet. In this episode, Phantom CEO Brandon Millman joins a16z crypto Investment Partner Jay Drain and host Robert Hackett to unpack how crypto wallets are evolving into full-blown consumer finance platforms — and why they may be the most credible candidates to become the internet’s next super apps. We explore Phantom’s journey from a Solana-first wallet to a multi-chain platform, why wallets are uniquely positioned to win trust around money, and how features like onchain trading, perps, social feeds, prediction markets, and payments are reshaping what people expect from a consumer finance app. The conversation also dives into: - Why starting with finance may be a better path to a super app than starting with social - How Phantom thinks about UX, trust, and security in crypto - The rise of perpetual futures (perps) and prediction markets - What the FTX collapse meant for Solana — and the counterintuitive silver lining - Whether AI agents could one day replace apps and browsers If you’re curious about where crypto, fintech, and consumer apps are headed next — and why wallets may become the most important interface on the internet — this episode is for you. with Brandon Millman jay Robert Hackett

a16z crypto

44,872 views • 8 months ago

Today on MCG: Totalis Totalis is building parlays for ANY event; not just sports P and his team just made history as the first company ever to accept a Y Combinator investment in stablecoins, settled on Solana 👇 00:58 - First YC stablecoin investment ever 03:21 - Working with YC's legal team 04:27 - Why they chose Solana over Ethereum and Base 05:41 - Any YC company can now take stablecoins 06:15 - Superteam Canada and the Waterloo Blockchain roots 07:52 - What is Totalis? 09:19 - Why parlays on prediction markets haven't existed until now 11:13 - Where is the prediction market industry headed? 12:04 - NYSE invested in Polymarket — what that signals 13:11 - Origin story 15:03 - Totalis doesn't compete with Polymarket — it sits on top 17:05 - How it works mechanically 18:43 - Making YC history — the full behind the scenes 23:13 - When Totalis wins big 25:19 - Token launch timing 27:06 - Consensus, Miami
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Today on MCG: Totalis Totalis is building parlays for ANY event; not just sports P and his team just made history as the first company ever to accept a Y Combinator investment in stablecoins, settled on Solana 👇 00:58 - First YC stablecoin investment ever 03:21 - Working with YC's legal team 04:27 - Why they chose Solana over Ethereum and Base 05:41 - Any YC company can now take stablecoins 06:15 - Superteam Canada and the Waterloo Blockchain roots 07:52 - What is Totalis? 09:19 - Why parlays on prediction markets haven't existed until now 11:13 - Where is the prediction market industry headed? 12:04 - NYSE invested in Polymarket — what that signals 13:11 - Origin story 15:03 - Totalis doesn't compete with Polymarket — it sits on top 17:05 - How it works mechanically 18:43 - Making YC history — the full behind the scenes 23:13 - When Totalis wins big 25:19 - Token launch timing 27:06 - Consensus, Miami

MCG

32,573 views • 4 months ago

A fascinating chat with CZ 🔶 BNB in Dubai—Enjoy! 00:00 Intro 00:47 CZ returns: AI, education, and what’s next 02:12 Giggle Academy: Scaling AI to teach 100M kids 04:01 CZ’s global crypto diplomacy with governments 07:08 Dubai’s rise as crypto capital: Behind the scenes 10:22 Strategic crypto reserves: Bhutan, US, more 13:22 AI + blockchain: The future of government & ID 16:11 Real builders vs hype chasers in crypto 18:54 Investing advice: What new users should avoid 21:17 AI agents will pay, trade, and build in crypto 24:35 Why CZ invested in X (Twitter) 26:30 Decentralizing AI & monetizing data 29:03 What CZ got wrong: Stablecoins, memes & more 32:14 Advice for founders: What the space needs 36:22 ETFs, cycles & why #Bitcoin leads first 39:26 Final thoughts: Patience, building, and an AI-powered future
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A fascinating chat with CZ 🔶 BNB in Dubai—Enjoy! 00:00 Intro 00:47 CZ returns: AI, education, and what’s next 02:12 Giggle Academy: Scaling AI to teach 100M kids 04:01 CZ’s global crypto diplomacy with governments 07:08 Dubai’s rise as crypto capital: Behind the scenes 10:22 Strategic crypto reserves: Bhutan, US, more 13:22 AI + blockchain: The future of government & ID 16:11 Real builders vs hype chasers in crypto 18:54 Investing advice: What new users should avoid 21:17 AI agents will pay, trade, and build in crypto 24:35 Why CZ invested in X (Twitter) 26:30 Decentralizing AI & monetizing data 29:03 What CZ got wrong: Stablecoins, memes & more 32:14 Advice for founders: What the space needs 36:22 ETFs, cycles & why #Bitcoin leads first 39:26 Final thoughts: Patience, building, and an AI-powered future

Raoul Pal

154,282 views • 1 year ago

🌋 Breaking: The WEF is now projecting $867 trillion in global assets will move onchain. The WEF is talking about 867 trillion dollars worth of assets that are expected to be tokenized over time. That number touches everything. Real estate, stocks, bonds, commodities, payments, trade…..the entire financial system. The pieces being put in place: • Chainlink released a major breakdown on the shift to an onchain economy, along with integrations across SWIFT, DTCC, Mastercard, Euroclear and more • The IMF published a full framework for stablecoins and digital money • Over 20 countries signed a joint agreement on property transparency • European banks are preparing for tokenized deposits and crypto services • The UK passed a law formally recognizing digital assets as personal property • Hedera continues rolling out real-world integrations, government pilots and enterprise tooling • Archax executed the first onchain ETF trade on Hedera • XRP ETF inflows growing • Australia’s AP+ and central bank pilots are testing digital money on Hedera mainnet • And across the board, networks and platforms like XRP, HBAR, LINK and QNT are being used as actual infrastructure, not speculation A few years ago, any one of these headlines would have carried the entire crypto space for months. Now it’s happening every single day. We are part of the less the 1% that realizes the entire world is shifting to onchain rails.
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🌋 Breaking: The WEF is now projecting $867 trillion in global assets will move onchain. The WEF is talking about 867 trillion dollars worth of assets that are expected to be tokenized over time. That number touches everything. Real estate, stocks, bonds, commodities, payments, trade…..the entire financial system. The pieces being put in place: • Chainlink released a major breakdown on the shift to an onchain economy, along with integrations across SWIFT, DTCC, Mastercard, Euroclear and more • The IMF published a full framework for stablecoins and digital money • Over 20 countries signed a joint agreement on property transparency • European banks are preparing for tokenized deposits and crypto services • The UK passed a law formally recognizing digital assets as personal property • Hedera continues rolling out real-world integrations, government pilots and enterprise tooling • Archax executed the first onchain ETF trade on Hedera • XRP ETF inflows growing • Australia’s AP+ and central bank pilots are testing digital money on Hedera mainnet • And across the board, networks and platforms like XRP, HBAR, LINK and QNT are being used as actual infrastructure, not speculation A few years ago, any one of these headlines would have carried the entire crypto space for months. Now it’s happening every single day. We are part of the less the 1% that realizes the entire world is shifting to onchain rails.

King Solomon (Ryan Solomon)

21,620 views • 9 months ago

🌋 WARNING: Banks Have Begun Tokenizing Deposits. This Is the $100T Moment. Banks are moving beyond stablecoins toward tokenized bank deposits. Programmable money, inside the existing banking system. Networks and developments covered: XRPL / XRP Positioned as neutral liquidity and settlement for tokenized assets, stablecoins, and institutional payments. Learn 12 things about XRP in today's video. Canton Network / CC Lloyds Banking Group and Archax completed the UK’s first public blockchain settlement using tokenized deposits on Canton. DTCC, Nasdaq, and JPMorgan are aligning around this regulated market infrastructure. Hedera / HBAR Enterprise and government adoption is driving internal consolidation to reduce friction and accelerate real deployments. Fortune 500 companies are actively choosing Hedera. Quant / QNT Deeply embedded in sovereign and banking rails, openly discussing tokenized deposits as core commercial bank money. Solana / SOL Powering regulated stablecoin and public-sector deployments, including the first U.S. state-issued stablecoin via the Wyoming Stable Token initiative. Chainlink / LINK The data layer. Embedded across almost ever recent major announcement, enabling on-chain data, interoperability, and market infrastructure workflows. Tokenized deposits are bringing programmability into the traditional system, global financial infrastructure is upgrading in real time!!! Mentions: Ripple RippleXDev Canton Network Hedera Archax Archax Crypto @quant_network Gilbert Verdian Solana vibhu Chainlink Wyoming Stable Token Commission
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🌋 WARNING: Banks Have Begun Tokenizing Deposits. This Is the $100T Moment. Banks are moving beyond stablecoins toward tokenized bank deposits. Programmable money, inside the existing banking system. Networks and developments covered: XRPL / XRP Positioned as neutral liquidity and settlement for tokenized assets, stablecoins, and institutional payments. Learn 12 things about XRP in today's video. Canton Network / CC Lloyds Banking Group and Archax completed the UK’s first public blockchain settlement using tokenized deposits on Canton. DTCC, Nasdaq, and JPMorgan are aligning around this regulated market infrastructure. Hedera / HBAR Enterprise and government adoption is driving internal consolidation to reduce friction and accelerate real deployments. Fortune 500 companies are actively choosing Hedera. Quant / QNT Deeply embedded in sovereign and banking rails, openly discussing tokenized deposits as core commercial bank money. Solana / SOL Powering regulated stablecoin and public-sector deployments, including the first U.S. state-issued stablecoin via the Wyoming Stable Token initiative. Chainlink / LINK The data layer. Embedded across almost ever recent major announcement, enabling on-chain data, interoperability, and market infrastructure workflows. Tokenized deposits are bringing programmability into the traditional system, global financial infrastructure is upgrading in real time!!! Mentions: Ripple RippleXDev Canton Network Hedera Archax Archax Crypto @quant_network Gilbert Verdian Solana vibhu Chainlink Wyoming Stable Token Commission

Ryan (King) Solomon

24,147 views • 8 months ago