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Mature trust marketsOnchain finance — the core
ThesisJun 2026

Cost of Trust 2.0

Roughly 35% of the US labor market is trust-enabling work: auditors, escrow agents, intermediaries, paperwork. Blockchain reduces the cost of establishing that trust toward zero.

Lasse Clausen→
ThesisJun 2026

Security and Trust: The Bottleneck of Deploying Agentic AI

AI agents are in production, but capability has outpaced the security and trust infrastructure needed to deploy them safely.

Wei Dai→
ThesisJun 2026

The Rewiring of Trade Finance

Stablecoin payments to emerging-market trade corridors are the most important blockchain product category of 2026, and trade finance is its largest underbuilt segment.

Nichanan Kesonpat→
ThesisJun 2026

Real World Assets On-Chain

Treasuries, private credit, and funds are moving onchain because settlement, custody, and distribution all get cheaper and faster there. The assets are already trusted; what changes is the infrastructure beneath capital markets.

David Alemany→
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