Powering the next generation of financial products @labs_compass prev @angelhack @r2yield Writing about the future 📖
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Aaron retweeted
The best financial products of the next decade will not call themselves crypto.
Just good products, with the chain hidden underneath and your app in front. That is what Compass builds.
The technology wins by disappearing.
#onchainfinance #futureoffinance
ALT Compass billboard: The best products won't call themselves crypto.
Aaron retweeted
Funding rounds aren't milestones. It shouldn't be your goal to raise a series A. It should be your goal not to need to.
Aaron retweeted
People often want to ask me if their startup idea is good, as if my opinion means anything.
I think 99% of ideas are good if the team can execute well. The problem is, 98% of teams fail at execution.
So, no need to sell me your idea, show your execution.
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Chris Dixon and Ben Horowitz on why a16z Crypto is now a16z Frontier, a fund for the "outer planet" founders building things that don't fit into any existing category:
"Years ago, [crypto] was sort of its own world with its own companies and its own investors. The lines have blurred, and it's become kind of more part of the tech landscape."
"What we found with our vertical strategy is that there's still new things that fall outside of the verticals... And so by doing this, we will have the motion to invest in the very most interesting founders who are outer planets... It kind of fills a hole in the architecture."
"At the end of the day, more than categories, more than products, we invest in entrepreneurs, and so many of the most interesting entrepreneurs are outer planets, so this gives us a real way to get to them."
"Plenty of ideas that were not discussed today are probably more interesting and more creative. If for whatever reason they don't fit in the other kind of core areas at our firm, we're open-minded and willing to engage with those kinds of creative ideas."
@cdixon @bhorowitz
Full conversation: youtu.be/-9XQMHhpypc
Great conversations, new friends and people I finally met in person.
@labs_compass we loved co-hosting Banking the Agent Economy with the Estonian Business Hub and @yellowcard_app during Token 2049! 🇸🇬🤖
If we met there, let’s keep talking.
Plenty to build together!
Aaron retweeted
What if your AI agent could research financial markets and help you act on what it finds?
We've paired the @labs_compass MCP with @CambrianNetwork MCP to show how agents can use financial intelligence for onchain transactions.
Search → analyze → execute.
Demo 🧵
Aaron retweeted
What does banking look like when the customer is an AI agent?
We brought banks, builders & investors together to explore that at Banking the Agent Economy during Token 2049.
Our takeaway: access to financial products and control over their use have to develop together.
Aaron retweeted
Your mind will follow whatever you feed it.
Want better thoughts? Consume better things.
Aaron retweeted
Tokenized stocks are easy to issue. The hard part is making them usable.
In this demo: list tokenized assets, buy one, hold it. Real, callable, inside the app.
That's the layer @labs_compass builds.
#tokenization #onchainfinance
Aaron retweeted
Tokenized assets are reaching new audiences inside products people already use.
Integrations with @ground_onchain, @labs_compass, @get_para and @lifiprotocol bring them to portfolio builders, developers and agents, fintech users, and capital on other chains.
More on how integrations are scaling distribution: centrifuge.io/blog/tokenized…
Aaron retweeted
Join us tomorrow at @token2049 for Banking the Agent Economy, hosted by @labs_compass & @yellowcard_app
If you build agents that need to touch money, or the infra agents will run on, join us. We have speakers from @HSBC, @stripe, @openfx_ and many more.
