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"There are plenty of places where you can dump your vibe-coded garbage – but this is not the same. Because you can actually scale up and do a legit system architecture with @miren.dev" Watch the full livestream with @chadfowler.com and @evanphx.dev here: www.youtube.com/live/1gjm9Gi...

The hardest conversations in AI need space to breathe. Last month, we hosted Climbing Hard AI Peaks—two days in the Alps with builders from across the ecosystem. Four camps. Winding trails. Fresh air. In a world heading toward utopia or oblivion, this was the former. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMdY...

Live today at 2pm ET – an open conversation with Carson Farmer and @chadfowler.com on building a decentralized skill market for Al with Recall Network. 📍 www.youtube.com/live/BvQsWZ4...

NEWS: We’re welcoming Mike Wax to BlueYard as a General Partner. Serial founder, prolific angel investor, friend and a keen student of technology and the world. He’ll help us back founders moving us closer to utopia & holding the line against oblivion. blueyard.medium.com/welcoming-mi...

Streaming live now on X – @chadfowler.com joins Recall Network's In the Arena with Carson Farmer x.com/recallnet/st...

AI has a trust problem. Recall is addressing this with Skill Markets—combining competitions with economic signals to make AI discoverable based on performance, not promises. Excited to continue backing the Recall team on their mission to rebuild trust in the AI economy. app.recall.network

Are you a seed-stage founder / builder (or soon to be) working on the hard frontier of AI? Then apply to join Climbing Hard AI Peaks, an immersive two-day summit for learning and exchange: blueyard.medium.com/climbing-har...

@gordon.bsky.social on the origin of the name Samizdat – from his conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT. Watch the full conversation here: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ...

Can discovery happen without exposure? Join @chadfowler.com and Seref Yarar for a conversation and live demo on how Index Network is building a privacy-first protocol for intent-driven discovery. 🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th | 3pm ET 📍 www.youtube.com/live/oFFs9je...

“AI can fake all kinds of things, but it cannot fake a cryptographic signature” – @gordon.bsky.social Watch the full conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ... github.com/gordonbrande...

Join @chadfowler.com for a livestream with Tim Robinson as he walks us through the motivation and architecture behind FreePay - the worlds first open source, fee-free payment terminal. 🗓️ Wednesday, July 23rd | 10:00am ET / 16:00 CET 📽️ www.youtube.com/live/eaqPCXq...

Join @chadfowler.com and @gordon.bsky.social for a livestream on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT (Signed Zero-trust DaTa. Pronounced "Samizdat") 🗓️ Wednesday, July 2nd | 9am ET 🎬 www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ... github.com/gordonbrande...

Join John Calabrese and @chadfowler.com as they explore Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade using open data tools from www.agnostic.engineering 🗓️ Tuesday, June 10th | 11am ET 🎦 www.youtube.com/live/xUJQL2N...

We are excited to be backing Manex AI on their mission to enable autonomous manufacturing. blueyard.medium.com/manex-ai-317...

Join our team as Head of Communications / PR to lead and evolve BlueYard’s communication strategy and help unlock the powerful narratives emerging from the fabric layer technologies we back. blueyard.medium.com/join-our-tea...

AI is going to redefine human relationships - love & hate, joy & sorrow, humour & cringe. Grouphug is exploring the intersection of human group interactions and AI. We are excited to be backing Felix Petersen & team on their new mission: techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/g...

Join @chadfowler.bsky.social on April 16th for a livestream with Gabriela Moreira, Lead Quint Developer Informal Systems. Quint is a modern specification language built to increase trust in software. 🗓️ Wednesday, April 16 | 11am EDT 📽️ www.youtube.com/live/ww046k3...

Congratulations to Marvel Fusion on the successful $120M raise - a key milestone that brings total funding to $415M. We are excited to continue supporting their quest to commercialize fusion-enabled baseload energy to power the world’s clean energy future. www.ft.com/content/c911...

Excited to see Castelion and AnySignal featured as two of the companies shaping the fight of the future in a16z's latest American Dynamism 50. a16z.com/american-dyn...

Thrilled to see VSPARTICLE featured in The Economist for shaping the future of AI-driven materials discovery & creation! www.economist.com/science-and-...

We are excited to be backing veteran open source infrastructure developer Evan Phoenix and Miren on their journey to deliver cloud computing’s first major upgrade in decades. blueyard.medium.com/miren-bd717a...

We are excited to continue supporting Cryptio on their mission to ensure financial integrity within the crypto economy. Read more about their $25m Series A financing and launch of their Bedrock data platform: blog.cryptio.co/cryptio-rais...

“The games of money tend not to be sensitive to evidence ... if we create a game that permits both money & evidence to exist simultaneously, then maybe we also get to create a new type of economic system on top of that.” full convo w/ @chadfowler.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/FVz11m6...

Congrats Meatable for being recognized as one of Time's Best Inventions of 2024 – for its mission to create a sustainable & post-animal economy.

Live in 90mins: @chadfowler.bsky.social & Connor McCormick discuss the next socioeconomic system. Will Mars be a democratic republic? Or can we do better? Connor outlines a criteria for governance systems and describes a possible approach to achieve it. 🎬 www.youtube.com/live/FVz11m6...

Join @chadfowler.bsky.social, Tom Walton-Pocock, and Tim Robinson for a conversation on the importance of private state blockchains to crypto’s adoption, new technologies coming online in 2024, and the limitations / constraints developers may face. www.youtube.com/live/tdmTnRg...

We are excited to be backing Infinex on their mission to unlock the full potential of DeFi through a transformative, user-focused experience. blueyard.medium.com/infinex-aa38...

Join Seref Yarar, co-founder @ Index Network, and @chadfowler.bsky.social tomorrow for a livestream on building a decentralized protocol for user-centric discovery. 🗓️ Tuesday, Sept 17th at 2:00pm ET 🎦 Streaming live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/BUOv-jk...

BlueYard Crypto 3: backing the ultimate capital x compute coordination machine with our latest $75m early-stage crypto fund. blueyard.medium.com/blueyard-cry...

Join Tim Robinson and @chadfowler.bsky.social for a livestream exploring how liquidity can be made to flow seamlessly and automatically throughout the Ethereum L2 ecosystem. 🗓️ Thursday, June 27th: 9:30am ET / 3:30pm CET 🎦 Streaming live on youtube: www.youtube.com/live/OWA_gcC...

We're pleased to welcome Tom Walton-Pocock and Benjamin Levy, some of the deepest thinkers on the fundamentals of crypto and the chasms it still has to cross, as our new Venture Partners.

Join our team as a Crypto Associate – backing entrepreneurs that are solving critical crypto compute and infrastructure challenges. blueyard.medium.com/join-our-tea...

Join Fluence's CTO / Co-Founder Dmitry Kurinskiy and host Chad Fowler for a walkthrough of Fluence's motivation and the "cloudless" computing architecture they have launched. 🗓 Friday April 12th: 10am ET / 4pm CET 📽 Streaming live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/Zt-4x5f...

We’re offering $100k to thoughtful researchers and builders to better understand and unlock crypto’s potential as the ultimate capital x compute x data x algorithms coordination system. More details on BlueYard DYOR and application below. blueyard.medium.com/announcing-t...

We are excited to be backing Ingonyama on their mission ​​to democratize the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs. blueyard.medium.com/ingonyama-a0...

We are excited to be investing in Kiln again and continuing to support their mission to democratize access to crypto staking for both institutions and retail blueyard.medium.com/kiln-579910d...

Tune in this Wed, Dec 20th for our next live coding stream – with Shell Protocol and @chadfowler.bsky.social 🗓️ Wednesday, Dec 20th (9am PST / Noon EST / 6pm CST) 🔔Set a reminder to be notified when the stream goes live: youtube.com/live/PdOT4LL...

We are excited to continue our partnership with Nucleate in 2024 to unlock the potential of science founders at the earliest stages across university campuses blueyard.medium.com/blueyard-nuc...

We are excited to be backing Zafrens on their mission to democratize access to therapeutics, irrespective of modality blueyard.medium.com/zafrens-ab9f...

We are excited to be backing @3num.co on their mission to update the core infrastructure of mobile communications with the world’s first globally routable web3 phone number. blueyard.medium.com/3num-0c30e05...

When we first backed Henri and Asta they were on a mission to transform crypto UI/UX away from an "eating glass" experience. 1 million users later & powering many of crypto's breakthrough apps we are excited to invest in their A again www.privy.io/blog/series-...

We are excited to be backing the Biomia team on their mission to revolutionize the treatment landscape for numerous mental and physical disorders through novel, nature-inspired molecules. blueyard.medium.com/biomia-63298...

We are excited to be working with AnySignal on their mission to master the radiofrequency (RF) domain through end-to-end solutions that cover communications, radar, navigation, and RF sensing for advanced aircraft, satellites, and national security anysignal.medium.com/anysignal-cl...

We're pleased to welcome Alejo Salles, Flashbots steward and one of the leading research minds in crypto, as our new Venture Partner.

As new tooling, entrepreneurial accessibility and AI continue to unlock evolution’s algorithms, programmable biology is moving from vision to reality at increasing speed. We're looking forward to an evening of stimulating conversations in London on Oct 4: blueyard.medium.com/programmable...

We are excited to be backing clock.bio on their mission to extend and improve the quality of life by reversing the harmful effects of aging in our cells. blueyard.medium.com/clock-bio-72...