
early stage investor in physics & chemistry @darkartsvc previously @socialcapital, @omgpop, @ibm, @harvardphysics
San Francisco
Joined December 2008
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Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
On March 13, we rang the opening bell at @NasdaqExchange for KRAKAcquisition Corp. (KRAQU).
Nasdaq is the home of dynamic change — the internet, AI, and what we see happening now in financial markets and infrastructure. We look forward to coming back with a partner company that embodies it.
Great day with the team, families, and partners.
Thanks to @NatCapCentral, @krakenfx, @tribecap, and our advisors and independent directors @mooredant, @brevsin, @artzandy, @bendavenport, @JReedRosenthal, and @nikichain.
Special thanks to @superjz, @arjunsethi, @LaurenP0ST, and @LunaPRofficial.
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Excited to announce KRAKacquisition Corp. (KRAQU)—a SPAC formed in partnership between @NatCapCentral , @krakenfx, and @tribecap, where I serve as CEO.
Throughout history, speculation has catalyzed lasting innovation: Dutch East India shares created equity markets. Grain futures built the Chicago Board of Trade. Junk bonds opened mid-market capital access.
The same pattern is unfolding in digital assets. Over $240 billion in private investment since 2016. 650M+ users globally. Stablecoins settling $136B+ in payments. What began as speculation is now crystallizing into infrastructure.
We're focused on companies building the convergence of DeFi and TradFi—payment networks, tokenization platforms, blockchain infrastructure, compliance solutions. Companies ready to scale in the public markets.
Fortunate to partner with @mooredant, @brevsin , and independent directors @artzandy, @bendavenport , @JReedRosenthal , and @nikichain.
Special thanks to: @superjz @arjunsethi @LaurenP0ST @LunaPRofficial
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Using AI/ML in your smart contracts means trusting a single source of truth and a single point of failure.
How can we consume ML outputs that are verifiable and decentralized?
🚨 Introducing Spectral’s Mainnet.
A Machine Intelligence Network, powered by #zkML, that ushers in The Inference Economy.
How does it work?
Spectral's machine intelligence network operates as a dynamic two-sided marketplace. On the one side there are miners (Modelers) who train and contribute machine learning models in a privacy-preserving manner. On the other side, we have Consumers with a fundamental demand for customized, high-quality inferences.
To address this need, our network produces verifiable ML inference feeds for smart contracts.
While existing oracle networks cater to data feeds, most notably for price data, Spectral addresses a significant gap by enabling an unprecedented feed of high-quality inferences. Spectral’s feeds expand the scope and capabilities of smart contracts, opening new horizons for decentralized applications in web3.
🔗 Our Blog Post post covers all the details bit.ly/46Juc7Y
Our Vision:
We’re building an incentive network, which will change how web3 perceives and interacts with machine intelligence. At its core, Spectral fosters a decentralized, global community of top data scientists and problem solvers. Through various competitive ML challenges this community is perpetually incentivized through bounties and majority of ongoing revenue.
Any web3 company can access these high quality ML models through our streaming inference feeds and implement them directly into smart contracts. Because the model’s proof-of-execution is verified by zkML (powered by @ezklxyz), web3 companies can avoid single point of failure and minimize bias in their ML usage. Find out more: spectral.finance/
🚀 Calling All Modelers: We invite all Data Science/ML enthusiasts, students and professionals to join our first challenge: Crafting a web3 Credit Score.
💰 High Stakes: Your chance to win a $100K bounty: Showcase your ML skills and be at the forefront of machine intelligence in web3.
Thanks to @AlchemyPlatform, @notnotstorm (Cryo), @gakonst (reth), @duckdb, @ErigonEth, @ezklxyz, @graphprotocol, @MessariCrypto and @TransposeData who help make this possible. Their tools and products have helped us create a comprehensive data set, powering our ML Network.
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Our next chapter begins today!
Check out the NEW metadrop.com and read this thread to the end to learn about Drop Rewards 👀
Since 2021 we’ve had the pleasure of launching NFT drops for some amazing projects like @bywassies, @AnataNFT & @webaverse among many others.
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
1/ Today, we announced that Wild has raised a $7M seed round. Our CEO @douglassNFT spent some time chatting with @camgthompson at @CoinDesk about this exciting milestone and what’s to come with Wild! coindesk.com/web3/2023/03/09…
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
1/ 💥 Today’s a big day at Equals — we’re launching dashboards. 💥
Forget yet another BI tool. Build fully automated dashboards with the flexibility and familiarity of a spreadsheet.
Support our launch on Product Hunt, and learn more below 👇
producthunt.com/posts/dashbo…
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Today we're sharing the model that @figma used to understand and forecast their self serve business.
@sean__whit built it. He was one of Figma's first 40 employees.
Figma still use it.
Blog post, video, and template below 👇
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Surprisingly few VCs do:
1) take the lead in scheduling
2) run an efficient process
3) treat the founder with respect
4) invest fairly, or, pass transparently
5) send a thank you to who made the intro
The best do this, but most do not.
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
web3 Uber is ridiculed as one of the worst ideas
It’s actually one of the best, we’re just not ready for it yet
Here are the key missing pieces needed to make it happen
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Excited to share what had us so eager to back @__sishir and some early @SpectralFi metrics in advance of his talk at fellow General Catalyst portfolio company @circlepay conference this week! #ConvergeSF22
generalcatalyst.com/gcamplif…
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Neat global crypto adoption index from @chainalysis: blog.chainalysis.com/reports…
#1: Vietnam
#2: Philippines
#3: Ukraine
#4: India
#5: United States
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
The US Supreme Court is effectively a "5 of 9 multi-sig" who can upgrade the system without the support of token holders.
Just like in crypto, the multi-sig can be compromised by an attacker (trump) and there is nothing we can do about it.
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Looking for something more than animal-based PFP projects? We gotchu. Our #NFT game will launch at the same time as mint. Let’s go!
techfolk.io/
Build an NFT based startup!
#SOL #SolanaNFT
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
If you love working with kind, amazing people and you’re interested in building the cooperation economy, please DM me :)
Want to work in web3?
We're hiring
- Frontend engineers
- Backend engineers
- Community managers
- Growth hackers
- Or create your own role
Let's build the future of work and play ✨
notion.so/wonderverse/Wonder…
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
Two rollups walk into a bar. The barman asks: "Can I see your ids?". ZK Rollup says: "I can prove to you I'm over 18, but I won't show you my id". Optimistic Rollup says: "If nobody can prove I'm underage in 7 days that means I'm over 18"
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
I will say something crypto Twitter will hate to hear but the best UX for NFTs right now is on @BitClout hands down.
no brainer minting, bidding, buy/sell (and transferring coming up). Fast, cheap. no crazy wallet or dangerous contract permissions.
missing: integr. opensea.
Andy Artz 🔮 retweeted
The ethical debate over Miner Extractable Value (and MEVA) is not just theoretical.
@optimismPBC and @arbitrum are taking diametrically-opposed approaches to this problem w/r/t the sequencer's MEV capabilities.
(I much favor Arbitrum's fair-sequencing approach over MEVA)
Replying to @phildaian @tarunchitra
There will probably be more popcorn and I highly encourage participation in its consumption, because I think this is one of the most important philosophical debates in the space.





























