Introducing Ground, the Money Infrastructure Company, supercharging banking and finance. We have been quiet, building with design partners. Today, we launched out of stealth, alongside a $3.6 million pre-seed funding round, to embed onchain finance everywhere, starting with yield. Ground turns any stablecoin or cash balance into a yield-bearing balance through one API. One integration provisions wallets, deploys into configurable on-chain yield sources, and emits ledger-ready accounting your end-user UI and internal systems can use on day one. The bar is fintech UX, not blockchain UX. Yield should feel like a native balance feature, not a gas-and-retries engineering project. You pick allocations, set policies, and stay in control of funds. Ground hides blockchains and complex onchain mechanics. Built for any financial platform or asset manager like neobanks, fintechs, corporate treasuries, and wealth managers. Founded by fintech and digital asset veterans from @stripe, @SuperstateInc, @hifibridge, and @compoundfinance. Backed by @BainCapCrypto, @paraficapital, @nascent , @robotventures, @chapterone, and Consonant Ventures. - @rmcuming, CEO and @realsamyoon, CTO

We’ve raised $8.7M to bring clearing to the masses. Our new round was led by Blockchange to work on the most powerful idea in finance. It’s not just about moving money faster & cheaper; it’s about moving less while doing more.

LIVE NOW - The $280 Million DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever A $280 Million DeFi exploit exposed the hidden fragility of crypto’s most trusted systems. @delitzer and @odysseas_eth break down: - how the attack happened, - why bridge risk and protocol composability made the damage so severe, - what Arbitrum’s intervention means for immutability, - and why DeFi now needs an aerospace-grade security mindset to survive the AI era. Enjoy the episode. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:57 Worst DeFi Hack Ever? 7:01 What Happened? 10:11 How Sophisticated? 11:42 Explaining the Hack to TradFi 16:51 Who’s to Blame? 22:13 L2 Architecture Consequences 28:17 How Does it Get Resolved? 31:46 Circuit Breakers & Rate Limiters 34:05 AAVE V4 34:51 Arbitrum Intervention Implications 42:02 Code is Law vs Human Governance 51:59 Stage 1 vs Stage 2 Rollups 55:29 Post-Hack DeFi 1:03:05 Aerospace Level Security 1:09:49 Will DeFi Survive? 1:14:33 Closing & Disclaimers

docs.google.com/document/d/1… incident response handbook by @nascent folks nitter.app/PatrickAlphaC/status/1… pattern of interaction for best practices for defi operations github.com/nascentxyz/simple… simple checklist also by nascent

Scaling Prediction Markets. - @SirLeoThe1st from Light Node Ventures - @setofsevens from @SkywalkTokens - @JackSimison from @nascent Full video below 👇🧵

If you want institutions using onchain credit, vibes don't cut it. They need frameworks. Collateral policy. Monitoring. Reporting. Governance. @BirchHill_io gets that institutions follow risk models, not narratives. @Nascent backed.

Why Crypto Is Actually Fine @delitzer nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1gqGvrjdz…

dan elitzer talks about @nascent “we invest in typically pre seed and seed stage, so usually when we write our cheque into a company, they do not have a product live yet”

FULL CONVERSATION w/ Dan Elitzer, Co-Founder of Nascent, Dan Smith, Senior Research Analyst at Blockworks Recorded LIVE at Solana Breakpoint 2025

Term-based staking on Solana unlocks higher yields for stakers and certainty for validators We like things that make markets more efficient and create better alignment Excited for @nascent to be backing @pyefinance

🛰️ Total raise: $10M 🛰️ The seed round turns breakthrough research into a reality → live constellation of satellites in orbit. Leads → @Maven11Capital & @lattice_fund Participants → @Superscrypt, @etherealvc, @arbitrum, @starship_vc, @nascent, @hash3xyz, @thebbfund, @ambergroup_io, @cmsholdings, @BitscaleCapital, @HashKey_Capital, @Offchain, @bodhi_ventures, @ChorusOne, @imTokenOfficial, @MoonrockCapital, @Wise3Ventures, @encodeclub and others. Angels → @WarcMeinstein, @JasonYanowitz, @ameensol, @Not3Lau_Capital, @will__price, @joonian, @crypto_han, @melynx and others.

Excited to welcome Dan Elitzer of Nascent to our Money 2.0 series. Talking: - @ethena stablecoin-as-a-service model - Who a stablecoin actually makes sense for

Takenos is making “send, save, spend” across LATAM as easy as texting No more currency chaos @nascent is backing the vision built by some of the grittiest founders we’ve met

Dan Elitzer and Odysseas explain how Phylax protects you from hacks.

Tune in to @11AMdotclub today with Nascent co-founder @delitzer and the founders of: @SOCKETProtocol @DivineResearch @phylaxsystems @flyingtulip_

A $200M seed round at $1B FDV?! Yes... and no. @AndreCronjeTech's @flyingtulip_ just launched one of the most original fundraising models we've seen in crypto. Let’s break down how it works—and why it matters. 🧵