⛵ Crypto’s God Mode Ends

Good Morning, Early Adopters!

The age of easy power is ending; the age of engineered scale has begun.

COMPLIANCE

Uncle Sam Just Doxxed the Cold Wallet

👀 What’s the move: The US Treasury and the Department of Justice jointly froze Cambodia’s Prince Group, a vast scam empire connected to so-called “pig-butchering” schemes, by seizing 15 billion USD in Bitcoin and blacklisting its bank. Officials did not hack the blockchain; instead, they traced wallets, linked shell companies, and used existing forfeiture laws as if it were a routine operation.

💡 Why it’s not boring: This was not a crypto heist but a display of institutional dominance. Washington has now shown that “decentralized” is mostly a branding illusion rather than a shield against jurisdiction. When regulators can map wallets and block access to fiat channels, the fantasy of financial anonymity starts to collapse. Cold storage cannot stay cold once compliance turns up the heat.

⛵ Key takeaway: The blockchain never forgot you, it simply waited for someone with subpoena power to remember.

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FINANCE

Meta Builds a $30B Supercluster With Someone Else’s Wallet

👀 What’s the move: Meta persuaded private equity firm Blue Owl to finance almost the entire $30 billion Hyperion AI datacenter in Louisiana. Under the deal, Meta will hold a 20 percent stake but retain full operational control, while the debt will remain on Blue Owl’s balance sheet. The structure, arranged by Morgan Stanley, allows Meta to expand without showing additional liabilities on its own books.

💡 Why it’s not boring: This is structured financing turned into a power move. Meta gains the massive compute capacity it needs for AI without draining cash or alarming shareholders about capital expenditure. Blue Owl carries the debt burden, yet Meta keeps the steering wheel. It is the same financial playbook private equity uses to buy companies, now reversed by Big Tech to build infrastructure. Other hyperscalers will not take long to follow.

⛵ Key takeaway: Zuckerberg just showed how to spend like a sovereign fund, keep control, and still call it a partnership.

STARTUP

OpenEvidence Doubles Valuation in Three Months

👀 What’s the move: OpenEvidence just raised another $200 million at a $6 billion valuation, which is less than a quarter after its last $3.5 billion round. The company built a ChatGPT-like interface trained on verified medical journals, and it gives clinicians free access while monetizing through pharma-sponsored content and API licensing to hospital systems.

💡 Why it’s not boring: This isn’t another “AI for healthcare” startup chasing FDA buzzwords. OpenEvidence found the rare loop between credibility, scale, and revenue: get doctors hooked with trustworthy answers, get pharma to pay for visibility, and get institutions to embed it in workflows. It’s effectively building the Google Search + UpToDate hybrid for the clinical internet—one that’s harder to copy than any model checkpoint.

⛵ Key takeaway: OpenEvidence isn’t selling AI; it’s selling authority—and in medicine, that’s the only product with infinite margins.

STARTUP SPOT

🧠 LangChain
“The framework that powers AI agents.”
Connects LLMs with data, APIs, and tools to build production-ready agents and retrieval workflows at scale.
→ Founded 2022 by Harrison Chase; raised $100M Series B (2025) led by IVP at ~$1B valuation; ecosystem spans LangSmith, LangServe, and LangGraph used by 1000+ enterprise teams.

🧬 OpenEvidence
“AI that actually reads the science.”
Uses large language models trained on verified biomedical literature to generate evidence-backed medical insights with full citations.
→ Founded by Daniel Nadler (ex-Kensho); raised $210M (2025) at $3.5B valuation; partners with Mayo Clinic and NIH; positioning itself as the “Bloomberg Terminal for medicine.”

🗣️ Friend AI
“Your always-on wearable companion.”
Necklace-shaped device that listens, chats, and reacts to your life through an embedded LLM and voice interface.
→ Founded 2023 by Avi Schiffmann; raised $2.5M seed; went viral in 2025 after NYC subway ad blitz and privacy debates; domain Friend.com purchased for $1.8M.

BAY AREA MEMOS

• An outage in AWS’s North Virginia region disrupted services like ChatGPT, Disney+, Snapchat, and Venmo for several hours before being restored.
• LangChain raised $125M at a $1.25B valuation to scale its open-source and commercial tools for building autonomous AI agents.
• IBM partnered with Groq to integrate its high-speed LPU chips into watsonx, accelerating enterprise AI agents and cutting inference costs.
• US and Australia signed a $3B deal to build mineral supply chains and defense tech to reduce reliance on China.
• U.S. regulators are investigating Waymo after one of its robotaxis drove around a stopped school bus unloading children in Atlanta.

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