I bumped into @sarithaforny this am and slightly embarrassed her and some commuters when I shouted “Vote for Saritha for NY AG!” at the top of my lungs.

That’s because we need an AG to enforce the law, not their personal vendetta like Letitia James. This race is winnable, vote!

Jensen closed his GTC Berlin 2026 keynote with this Hermes Agent demo as the finale.

He introduced it by saying the way to build an agent is to ask an agent to build it for you, so he installed and set up a customized Hermes in one prompt.

Then he used Hermes, running on reate a simulated training environment for the @huggingface Microduck. Hermes planned an obstacle course with Nemotron and had GPT-6 Astra build it using FreeCAD, Omniverse libraries, Blender, Newton, and Isaac Lab. Hermes trained thousands of simulated ducks on that course until the validated policy was ready to run on the real robot in the physical world.

At Nous, we believe open source is a practical tool as much as a philosophical ideal. It gives users the ability to build powerful, complex workflows chaining numerous local+cloud models, devices, and tools themselves instead of waiting for a company to enable them.

1/ I co-led iVerify’s $17M round with Sands Capital. Morgan Stanley, National Bank of Canada and United Airlines Ventures came in as strategic investors. Here’s why I’m so bullish on mobile EDR 🧵

My kids now have to solve age appropriate math problems before each episode of Bluey, thanks to the miracle of AI reverse engineering and upgrading my TV 🔥🔥🔥

The dogs now dance for a correct answer

Some goofy criminals are impersonating me, asking Robot Ventures portfolio companies to "remit payment" to cover a "payment error".

Obviously, please do not fall for this type of thing. And stay frosty out there, as AI makes this trivial and more common ☃️

10.7% of tokenized stock market cap is issuer-sponsored: the holder owns the share or has a direct claim on it

The other 89.3% is synthetic exposure

Most of the issuer-sponsored part is companies putting their own shares onchain, through platforms like Securitize & Superstate

Thank you @TIME

Congratulations to @coincenter for hosting its Annual Dinner and continuing to defend the right to build and use free and open networks.

We were proud to support the evening in NYC and bring together BA members, partners, and staff at our table.

the more niche a VC hat is, the better the VC

I am incredibly proud that @robotventures was given the opportunity to work with @dillonrolnick and the @NousResearch team on their Series B.

Hermes Agent, the best agent framework, is going to grow in ways you can't even fathom yet 🔥

sharing my thoughts on our recent fundraise.

we did alright for a couple of goofballs

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The man doesn’t miss 😀

But since we’re here, @NousResearch has more than quintupled usage since the scoop and @dillonrolnick, @karan4d, @Teknium, et. al are more determined than ever to make sure you own your own AI destiny

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1/ Tokenization isn’t coming for service providers. It’s coming through them.

The next wave of onchain asset management will be built on the custodians, administrators, and transfer agents already trusted with trillions.

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Legends4Legends 2026, Europe’s premier blockchain conference for allocators, was a great success.

The event featured top-tier educational content, valuable networking, and forward-looking discussions on blockchain innovation. We look forward to seeing you next year.
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North Korea stole $387M from Bitget and ran it through THORChain, again. Kalshi’s volume real or fake? Are agents going to create bank runs? Is staking still risk-free?

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:42 Bitget loses $387M to North Korea
07:08 Should chains freeze hacked funds?
15:35 of democracy
21:44 The hidden premium on janky chains
27:13 Consensys: is staking still risk-free?
30:53 Pricing and hedging validator risk
40:24 Kalshi's perps volume
44:17 How Kalshi's rebates went awry
53:07 Apollo's agentic bank runs
56:04 A banking system built on consumer laziness
1:02:46 SVB-style runs at agent speed
1:05:01 Homo economicus is back

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🚨 OCC Finreg Mystery (Partially?) Solved 🚨

It’s been almost three years since we reported that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s first chief financial technology officer had falsified, basically, the entire resume he submitted to secure the job leading the ice fintech firms and the banks that power them. (Story here: tinyurl.com/57muphth)

Still, there were a few outstanding questions: How did he get the $300,000-a-year role? Why did he suddenly disappear after just a few months on the job? And, uhh, what on earth?

As @theinformation wrote at the time, Prashant Bhardwaj claimed to have worked at a number of big institutions such as Fifth Third Bank (which never employed him), Huntington National Bank (which employed others in the CIO job he claimed to have held), and Accenture (which only had a record of someone with the same name in a far more junior role than the one he claimed).

Judging from the FOIA documents, this appeared to be news to the regulator. As were his claimed educational attainments, which appeared to come from a university that did not exist (as reported by the talented @mikulaja, who first noted Bhardwaj’s abrupt departure from the job).

Well, last week, a long-forgotten FOIA application returned some interesting documents, including a withering termination letter drafted by the OCC just three months into Bhardwaj’s tenure. It makes for curious reading. Some of the (ah, alleged) concerns raised by senior staff include:

🛑 A predilection to avoid meeting other staff in the Office of Financial Technology he oversaw or in other departments

🛑 Repeatedly complaining that he was “put on the spot” when asked to address staff about matters in his remit

🛑 Telling other departments his office would be taking over their functions and sharing “unapproved draft ideas” with the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank

🛑 A bizarre conflict over his demand for a bigger office located on a higher floor than the one available to him

🛑 A failure to submit time reports, expenses or complete online training

🛑 Telling admin staff to “Leave it be for now” when asked about hotel receipts, seeking to travel at government expense to return to the hotel to obtain a receipt, or that he “use a family member or friend’s private plan” to travel for work.

👇 Your taxpayer dollars, hard at work 👇

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Hard to believe, but in 2020, people actually bought 30yr bonds with a 1% yield